I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...

Astrophysicist Josep Trigo-Rodriguez of the Institute of Space Sciences near Barcelona, Spain, believes it is an interstellar ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) said it is monitoring an unidentified object alongside Russia identified only as A11pl3Z as it hurtles at astonishing speed from outside the Milky Way ...

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 ...

A potential interstellar interloper is currently zooming toward the Sun. Its strange approach angle suggests it may have come ...

Scientists believe that many more such objects regularly pass by the Earth, with a number of them flying relatively near to ...

A comet like the fictional Jesper is what’s known as a Jupiter family comet, so named because they have orbits which extend roughly to the orbit of Jupiter. Most comets , however, are more distant.

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 ...

In 1994, one comet whacked into Jupiter with so much force that it left a visible debris field. Astronomers saw another massive impact in 2009. Most collisions with Jupiter, ...

Jupiter-family comets, named for their gravitational ties to Jupiter, are icy relics of the Kuiper Belt, a region beyond Neptune. These short-period comets, with orbits lasting less than 20 years, ...

Here's how to see a comet and/or the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction this weekend Find a dark sky and grab some binoculars to try your luck. To stream WLTX 19 on your phone, you need the WLTX 19 app.