What happens when a comet collides with a gas giant? In July 1994, Shoemaker-Levy 9 slammed into Jupiter in a spectacular series of 21 explosions, creating fireballs bigger than Earth itself. This was ...

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The British Astronomical Association has reported an exceptionally powerful explosion of Comet 29P. On December 8, the comet brightened 16 times and ejected a significant amount of cryomagma ...

New photos of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) suggest that it could be disintegrating due to "thermal stress" from its recent slingshot around the sun. However, its fate is still unclear. When you ...

On Jan. 12, NASA astronaut Don Pettit on the International Space Station sent back an image of comet ... [+] C/2024 G3 (ATLAS). A comet that hasn’t been in the inner solar system for around ...

A comet-like object was seen soaring across the sky last night, leaving many wondering what it was. Meteor showers streaked across the Pennsylvania sky in late 2024, but this ...

“It should stay fairly prominent over the next few days as the fading comet is balanced out by the darker sky as it moves away from the sun until about Oct. 19 and Oct. 20," said astronomer Dr ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured C/2024 G3 "paying us a visit" in a striking photo released Jan. 11 on the social platform X.In the image, the comet's streaming tail makes it look like it is ...

Did a collision with a giant asteroid or comet change the shape of life on ... are evidence of an explosion powerful enough to instantly melt bedrock and propel it more than a hundred miles ...