"Eight minutes later, the orbiter started receiving data from the descent probe, which slammed into the top of the Jovian atmosphere at a comet-like speed of 170,000 kilometers per hour," NASA ...

Around seven asteroids or comets are thought to hit Saturn every year, but we have never spotted one in the act. Now, it ...

Astronomers investigate a potential impact on Saturn after a bright flash was caught on camera. NASA image may show first ...

The best known among them was Shoemaker-Levy 9, the soon-to-be spectacular comet he discovered with Gene and Carolyn Shoemaker in 1993.

A fleeting glow observed on Saturn on July 5th has puzzled scientists. This potentially unprecedented event could mark the ...

In July 1992, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 made its closest approach to Jupiter, skimming 25,000 miles (40,000 km) above Jupiter’s cloud tops.

On July 10, 1962 the Telstar communications satellite was the first private space mission to launch.

Once upon a time, Earth may have sported a planetary ring of its very own. The hypothetical ring didn't last long, cosmically ...

Today in the history of astronomy, the most prolific comet-discoverer of all time gets his start.