The gas giant appears to have experienced a pretty significant impact event and the flash of the extraterrestrial meteor was caught by amateur astronomers who just happened to be videoing Jupiter and its moons.
Mar 29, 2016 01:41 PM ET //
Mar 16, 2016 07:00 AM ET //
Is it ice or not? New observations of the dwarf planet have revealed the possible spectroscopic signal of ice turning to vapor as the surface is heated by the sun.
Mar 7, 2016 02:16 PM ET //
There's a mountain on dwarf planet Ceres, but scientists have no idea how it got there.
Feb 23, 2016 02:12 PM ET //
If a space rock hits the atmosphere, and no one is around to hear it, does the tabloid press still report it as an Earth-shattering event?
Feb 19, 2016 11:33 AM ET //
We know of only one asteroid with rings around it -- but there are likely many, many more.
Feb 18, 2016 12:10 PM ET //
Asteroid Vesta likely had enough impacts to erase a flurry of space rock collisions about four billion years ago.
Feb 10, 2016 08:43 AM ET //
It would be cold, it would be dry, it would be unpleasant.
Feb 5, 2016 10:49 AM ET //
An asteroid as long as a basketball court will give Earth a close shave next month.
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