Around seven asteroids or comets are thought to hit Saturn ever year, but we have never spotted one in the act. Now, it seems ...

The direct hit on Jupiter by Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 that summer sat on a destructive par with the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event that decimated three-quarters of earthly life, including all ...

NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that's wandered into our backyard. Luckily, it won't get near enough to be a threat ...

The comet broke into 21 fragments, which continued to orbit around Jupiter. It was discovered the following year by Carolyn and Eugene M. Shoemaker, and David Levy and was the first comet ever ...

Image of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 taken in red light on a collision course with Jupiter. Its train of 21 icy fragments stretched across 710 thousand miles (1.1 million km) of space, or 3 times the ...

NASA has discovered a new interstellar comet that's currently located about 420 million miles away from Earth. The space ...

NASA has discovered a rare interstellar object named 3I/ATLAS—only the third of its kind ever detected. The comet, which ...

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

We’ll also get a chance to see a handful of comets, like C/2022 E2 (ATLAS) in the constellation Cassiopeia and Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann, which orbits between Jupiter and Neptune.

The first was Comet C/1980 E1 (Bowell), which encountered Jupiter in 1980 and was similarly hurled out of the solar system, according to the astronomers' study.