In 2025, 73P will come within 31 million miles of the planet. Jupiter, meanwhile has been known to chew up comets due to its intense gravitational field. "It certainly feels like it's only a ...

The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 are all visible at once in ...

Studying this Jupiter-sized world and its long comet-like tail can teach us more about the physics of space, including how planets and their host stars evolve together over time. "The WASP-69b ...

Jupiter’s gravity later slung it ... size by absorbing planetesimals—rocky asteroids, icy comets, and larger objects—that smashed into them at high speed. According to one theory, the ...

Per the team’s models, a similar amount of material would have been delivered to Jupiter’s moons Callisto ... Because many of these smashed-comet particles have passed through Earth’s ...