Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...

"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 ...

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

Space scientists have worked out the shape of the asteroid set to smash into the Moon. Astronomers said the house-sized asteroid 2024 YR4 is shaped like a hockey puck and also deduced its origin.

13 August: Moon near Antares 15 August, early hours: Close conjunction of Mars and Jupiter 19 August, 7.25pm: Full Moon 20 August: Moon near Saturn 21 August, 4.28-5.21 am: Moon occults Saturn ...

31 August, early hours: Moon near Jupiter Nigel Henbest’s latest book, ‘Stargazing 2024’ (Philip’s £6.99) is your monthly guide to everything that’s happening in the night sky this year ...

Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 smashed into Jupiter in 1994, creating an explosion thousands of times more potent than Earth's nuclear arsenal.

In 1995, the Galileo Probe descended into Jupiter’s gaseous body and took a whiff. It found that Jupiter had three kinds of clouds: those made up of ammonia, ammonium hydrosulfide and water ice.

Titan’s Massive Dunes May Be a Comet and Moon Graveyard From the Early Solar System A new modeling study suggests the dark dunes on Saturn’s largest moon are made of tiny particles created by ...

Leah Crane: So, I feel like there’s two ways to do this, one is put up a big road block and just let everything smash into it. And then sort of extrude it out.