Shoemaker, and David Levy and was the first comet ever known to orbit a planet and not the Sun. It had been captured by Jupiter, 20 or 30 years earlier, orbiting the planet every two years.

G3 may be hard to see due to weather patterns and the California wildfires, said Tim Brothers of the Massachusetts Institute ...

The so-called 'planetesimal belts' are filled with tiny millimeter-sized particles created by collisions between comets.

An unusual looking 33-foot-long object discovered orbiting Earth last year may have come from a surprising place.

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13 as it reached its perihelion, and is now disintegrating.

Scientists recently identified 12 new moons orbiting Jupiter ... that they are captured asteroids or fragments of comets. An image of Jupiter as seen by NASA's Juno on August 18, 2024 during ...

Jupiter as seen by NASA's Juno spacecraft on Sept. 20, 2024 during its 65th perijove, and processed ... [+] by Jackie Branc. NASA’s Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter has returned another ...

While four members of this 'parade' can be easily spotted in a clear dark sky, finding the final two can be something of a ...

NASA's most powerful observatory - the James Webb Space Telescope has provided exciting new details about 2060 Chiron, a ...

Jovian planets include Jupiter, Saturn ... Pluto resembles the icy, comet-like objects orbiting the Sun outside of Neptune's orbit, rather than either the rocky terrestrial planets or the Jovian ...

“There were nine planets orbiting in well-determined orbits ... That led Neptune (foreground) and Uranus to disrupt a belt of comets, and Jupiter the asteroid belt. According to the Nice model ...