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 ...

Skywatchers on Thursday evening, Feb. 6, will notice an eye-catching pairing-off between two of the brightest objects in the ...

This week, NASA published images of a comet surging a close path to the sun ... explorers a recent image of a color-enhanced view of Jupiter from NASA’s Juno mission taken in December 2024 ...

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 ...

As their name suggests, main-belt comets tend to inhabit the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But they grow tails just like a comet, whereas dark comets have no tails but move like a ...

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 ...