The comet should be visible by telescope through September, before it gets too close to the sun, and reappear in December on ...

A new interstellar object, A11pl3Z, has been discovered in our solar system, marking the third such object to be observed. It was first discovered zipping near the sun this fall.

Astronomers are monitoring an object headed our way that may have wandered over from another star system. Scientists have ...

At a time of acute crisis, the threat posed by domestic extremists might fall down countries' list of political and security ...

But not long after, it was determined the comet was on course to crash into Jupiter’s atmosphere, which happened 30 years ago this summer as scientists watched using telescopes and spacecraft.

The Sun's powerful tidal forces then ripped off pieces off the comet—akin to what happened to the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 when it crashed into Jupiter in 1994—and one of the larger fragments of ...

The comet had been orbiting Jupiter for nearly a decade before Jupiter’s gravity tore it to shreds, breaking it apart into 20 fragments.

Another comet that crashed into Jupiter back in 1994 left huge, dark scars throughout the planet’s atmosphere and sent superheated plumes into Jupiter’s stratosphere. Of course, Bolides haven ...