Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An image of Jupiter in space. Jupiter just got smacked by a small celestial body, according to amateur astronomers. The impact ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's rare to capture footage of Jupiter collisions, but an amateur astronomer managed to record it. It's only the second time in a ...

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 ...

Jupiter is a cosmic vacuum cleaner. Owing to its girth — the gas giant wields the mass of 318 Earths — Jupiter can pull many objects into its orbit (though it can fling some toward Earth's ...

A new Durham University study has found that a giant impact may not be responsible for the formation of Jupiter's remarkable "dilute" core, challenging a theory about the planet's history. Jupiter, ...

The mystery at Jupiter's heart has taken a fresh twist – as new research suggests a giant impact may not have been responsible for the formation of its core. It had been thought that a colossal ...

Video observations of Jupiter obtained by amateur astronomers over the past eight years have shown five flashes of light of 1-2 s. The first three of these events occurred on 3 June 2010, 20 August ...