Researchers are reporting Herschel observations of water in Jupiter's stratosphere. It is a clear remnant of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet impact on Jupiter nearly 20 years ago. Astronomy & Astrophysics ...

Two amateur astronomers in different parts of the world captured what looks like an asteroid or comet impacting Jupiter on March 17. The giant planet — the largest in our solar system — is bombarded ...

Scientists have been studying the planet Jupiter to determine why the atmosphere over the planet's southern hemisphere contains more water than the atmosphere over the northern hemisphere of planet.

Twenty-five years ago, humanity first witnessed a collision between a comet and a planet. From July 16 to 22, 1994, enormous pieces of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9), discovered just a year prior, ...

Lucky is the word I'd use for any telescopic observers who got to see one of the most stunning spectacles in nature when Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacted Jupiter in July 1994. The collision left inky ...

This image shows the water-drenched stratosphere of Jupiter, captured yesterday by the Herschel space observatory, superimposed on a Hubble space telescope photo of the planet. Astronomers think that ...

The stratosphere of Jupiter is filled with water delivered to the giant planet by a cataclysmic comet crash in 1994 that not only wowed scientists at the time, but spawned a legacy that is still ...

On July 19, 2009, 15 years to the day after the famous comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 peppered Jupiter with huge chunks of ice, the gas giant was hit once again by a cosmic bullet. Australian amateur ...

Twenty years ago this week, humans for the first time witnessed a collision between two bodies in the solar system. From July 16 to 22, 1994, more than 20 fragments of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 ...

In July 1994, the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9) hit Jupiter and left visible scars on the Jovian disk for weeks. This spectacular event was the first direct observation of an extraterrestrial collision ...