Impressive footage reveals a historic moment of a violent space collision recorded in 1994 O post Rare images show a comet ...

For years, we thought a giant comet object smacked into Earth 66 million years ago, signing the collective death certificate ...

Why do comets and their meteoroid streams weave in and out of Earth's orbit and their orbits disperse over time? In a paper ...

A group of comets with unexplained movements presents a quandary D avide Farnocchia hunts down and tracks asteroids, and ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than just dazzling streaks of light as meteors, these ancient fragments are among ...

Although the impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 seems like a once-in-a-lifetime event, impacts still occur at Jupiter. You ...

Its currently in Mars' orbit but is on its way towards the Sun and getting brighter Atlas, a massive comet five times the size of Jupiter and about half the size of the Sun, will appear brighter ...

New research suggests meteor showers are so unpredictable due to the Sun’s own motion around the solar‑system barycenter.

Add the Jupiter crash of comet Shoemaker-Levy in 1994, Halley's most recent visit in 1986, vivid comet West in 1976, and the scientifically signifiant—if visually disappointing—Kohoutek in ...

NASA's Hubble Watches Jupiter's Great Red Spot Behave Like a ... 2024 — Researchers studying meteor showers have found that not all comets crumble the same way when they approach the Sun.

Meteor showers can be spectacular, but predicting when and where they’ll appear in the night sky has often been a challenge.

"Long-period comets spend most of their lives so far away from the solar system that they feel the tug from the barycenter," said Pilorz. "But every few hundred years they swoop inside Jupiter's ...