NASA said its Near-Earth Object WISE mission has discovered 20 comets and more than 33,000 asteroids in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter, in addition to 134 near-Earth objects (NEOs).
A huge asteroid the size of the Titanic has struck Jupiter, leaving a hole as large as the Pacific Ocean and causing temperatures to rise up to 4 Kelvin, scientists have confirmed. The July 2009 crash, which released the equivalent of five gigatons of TNT, had perplexed astronomers. But with the new findings, published in the journal Icarus, the mystery behind the huge scar on Jupiter is resolved.
Scientists have found a Europe-sized cyclone lasting more than five years on Saturn, making it the longest-lasting cyclone detected to date on any of the giant planets of the Solar System.
A Qatar astronomer and scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have discovered a new alien planet, named as Qatar-1b, bigger than Jupiter.
Researchers have found that one of the Jupiter's stripes that disappeared last spring is now showing signs of a comeback. The latest observations will help scientists better understand the interaction between Jupiter's winds and cloud chemistry.
Visitors tend to visit our home at any time, but this time an immigrant red giant from another galaxy has arrived in our Milky Way. This happens to be a new planet at least the size of Jupiter that came from another galaxy and is orbiting a star called HIP 13044.
British fund firm Jupiter's high-profile investor in financial stocks, Philip Gibbs, has put more than half his fund into cash as uncertainty around the UK election and western government debt hamper visibility.
NASA has interrupted its setup of the newly refurbished Hubble Space Telescope to capture the sharpest visible light images yet of a 'scar' discovered last week on the planet caused by the impact of a comet or an asteroid.
The Hubble Space Telescope may beam back photos as early as Thursday of the new “scar†generated by the impact of an unknown object on Jupiter's surface, which was first observed on Sunday by amateur Australian astronomer Anthony Wesley.
British cable TV operator Virgin Media is to launch an unlimited music download subscription service through a partnership with the world's largest music company, Universal.
Wireless companies hoping to emulate the success of online teen hangout Web sites like MySpace.com on cellphones are finding it hard to entice teenagers away from their computers.
