Strange formations in the rings around Saturn and Jupiter are the telltale marks of dramatic comet impacts that occurred in the last few decades, two new studies suggest. IE 11 is not supported.

"Eight minutes later, the orbiter started receiving data from the descent probe, which slammed into the top of the Jovian atmosphere at a comet-like speed of 170,000 kilometers per hour," NASA ...

The object that plowed into Jupiter in 2009, creating a giant scar, was most likely an asteroid the size of the Titanic, rather than a comet, the latest evidence suggests. Astronomers, presuming ...

Austrian star-gazer Gerrit Kernbauer caught the cosmic smash-up on film last ... a reference to the massive comet that slammed into Jupiter’s surface in July 1994 at roughly 134,000 mph. ...

Paris - Enigmatic traces of water in the upper atmosphere of Jupiter came from a comet that crashed into the giant planet in 1994, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Tuesday. Astronomers have ...

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.

NASA has discovered the third known interstellar object to pass through our solar system, but the icy snowball object poses ...

A comet from the deep space far beyond Pluto probably won't smash into the Earth and obliterate all life, reassuring researchers said today. New calculations have determined that most extinction ...

Today, powerful impacts into Jupiter are a lot more rare, but they do occur. In 1994, one comet whacked into Jupiter with so much force that it left a visible debris field. Astronomers saw another ...

Astronomers watching Jupiter got a surprise on Monday when a large unknown object appeared to smash into the gas giant. "It could only be an impact," he said. Other astronomers across the world ...

For Jupiter — 11 times wider than our planet — this was a small impact event. Large collisions, like from Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 in 1994, left dark splotches on the Jovian surface, including ...

This latter date range coincides with a famous comet smash on Jupiter — the impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which barreled into the planet from July 16 through July 20, 1994.