Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...

New simulations show that Jupiter's massive moon Ganymede was knocked off its axis when it was struck by a roughly ...

The space rock that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was a rare strike from an asteroid beyond Jupiter, a new ...

The Cretaceous period ended in a terrible disaster that had its origins beyond Jupiter. An asteroid more than six miles wide slammed into prehistoric Central America, kicking off a global heat ...

It can be found inside gas giants such as Jupiter and is briefly created during meteorite impacts or in laser fusion ...

The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on December 22 2032 is now approximately 4%, and this probability ...

There will be three full moons during the summer. And the sky this season has a number of bright stars that form easily ...

You can spot Jupiter hanging low in the western sky. It shines at magnitude –1.9 and becomes visible about 20 minutes after sunset, standing 8° high. ... Meteor Watch: Welcome the clouds.

The motion of Jupiter and Saturn in their orbits — which last 12 and 29 years, respectively — results in this particular meteor shower returning every 60 years, Jenniskens and Pilorz found.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images Donaldjohanson is likely a fragment from a collision 150 million years ago, making it one of the youngest in ...

A little-known fact to the general public is that there's more moving around Jupiter's orbit than just the giant gas planet. The first of these little-known companions to the Jovian giant was ...