A new hypothesis suggests that the breaking apart and eventual collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 – the first space rock ever directly observed hitting another Solar System body, Jupiter ...

Michigan State University and NASA researchers discover seven dark comets that reveal new solar system secrets.

This week, Jupiter may have gained a brand new ring when it was struck by a comet in the '90s, an ancient tablet found by fishers in Iran is written in an unknown language, a new-to-science ...

At its brightest, Venus has a magnitude of -4.5, while Jupiter and Mars are around -3. Despite hopes that the comet would be visible during the day, it did not get bright enough during its brush ...

A new study led by Kathleen Mandt, a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, has renewed focus on the role of Jupiter-family comets in Earth's water history, according to Phys.org.

Those with telescopes or other technology can find Neptune in line near Venus and Uranus will be near Jupiter. The Planetary Society calculations indicate Comet C/2024 G3, nicknamed Comet Atlas G3 ...

The results were perplexing, Mandt said, because the D/H value was way higher than those of other Jupiter-family comets. Plus, "the comet should have a lot more CO [carbon monoxide] and N2 ...