For decades we have known that Jupiter’s asteroid swarms follow the gas giant as it continues its orbit around the Sun. Now, astronomers may have finally deduced one of the biggest mysteries ...

Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it is blazing through our cosmic cul-de-sac at truly awe-inspiring speeds between the main asteroid belt and ...

Take that, Jupiter!The largest planet in the solar system just got whacked by an asteroid or a comet, and some intrepid stargazers have captured the planet's latest collision on camera.

New simulations show that Jupiter's massive moon Ganymede was knocked off its axis when it was struck by a roughly 90-mile-wide asteroid around 4 billion years ago. The colossal collision was ...

The infamous Chicxulub asteroid, which decimated the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, ... Jupiter’s largest moon. In the study published Tuesday in the journal Scientific Reports, ...

The largest moon in the solar system is Ganymede, which orbits the largest planet, Jupiter. New research suggests that an asteroid struck Ganymede four billion years ago, and the collision made ...

While they did find that the asteroid was orbiting in a retrograde manner, they also found that Jupiter was giving it more than a nudge. Instead, the giant planet appears to act like a railway ...

By examining images from the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers now believe that the mystery object that slammed into Jupiter in July 2009 was a rogue asteroid, rather than a comet.

Take that, Jupiter! The largest planet in the solar system just got whacked by an asteroid or comet, and some intrepid stargazers have captured the planetary collision on camera.

Space crash: New research suggests huge asteroid shifted Jupiter's moon Ganymede on its axis An asteroid 20 times larger than the one that struck Earth and led to the extinction of the dinosaurs ...

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 ...