"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 ...

There are lots of objects floating around in our solar system, but one thing most have in common is a common origin, and then ...

A new interstellar object, A11pl3Z, has been discovered in our solar system, marking the third such object to be observed. It ...

The far reaching orbits of LPCs compared to the orbits of Neptune, Saturn, and Jupiter (top right). Individual points are for a 60kyr evolution shower for a comet with median elements of shower ...

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 ...

The event was a wake-up call to Nasa – if Jupiter was vulnerable to cosmic collisions, maybe Earth was too. Had the comet hit Earth instead, it would have been devastating – much like the ...

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 ...

A version of this article appears in print on Sept. 19, 2023, Section D, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: A Fireball Hit Jupiter. Astronomers Got It on Video..

It's not actually that rare for Jupiter to be hit by space rocks—Arimatsu told Newsweek the gas giant is estimated to experience some sort of impact between 10 and 60 times per year—but it ...

In 1994, the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9) impacted Jupiter, which had captured the comet shortly before (and broken apart by its gravity). The event became a media circus as it was the first direct ...

Jupiter is like the hockey goalie of the heavens. This week, the solar system’s largest planet stopped another large object, scientists said. José Luis Pereira, an amateur astronomer from ...

Light on at Jupiter! Anyone home? This bright impact flash was spotted yesterday on the giant planet by astronomer José Luis Pereira. Not a lot of info on the impacting object yet but its likely ...