Take that, Jupiter! The largest planet in the solar system just got whacked by an asteroid or comet, and some intrepid stargazers have captured the planetary collision on camera.

Telescope images from Hawaii show the planet Jupiter has been hit by some sort of object -- possibly a comet, asteroid or meteoroid -- near its south pole. Astrophysicists say to be grateful ...

Jupiter just received an unexpected visitor. In a video recently posted on YouTube , amateur astronomer Gerrit Kernbauer captured what appears to be an asteroid, or a comet, colliding with the planet.

Jupiter, the solar system's punching bag: It got whacked by a comet or an asteroid a couple of weeks ago, and two amateur astronomers caught it on video.

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 ...

Astronomers tracking an interstellar object flying through the solar system think it comes from a star at least 8 billion ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Jupiter takes a lot of hits for the rest of the solar system, and new footage shows one of the biggest astronomers have ever seen. About 14 seconds into the video below, you can see a bright flash ...

In 1994, one comet whacked into Jupiter with so much force that it left a visible debris field. ... and tentative evidence indicates that Uranus and Neptune have also been hit.