Composite images of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 orbiting Jupiter in 1994. In 1993, three sky watchers — Carolyn and Gene Shoemaker and David Levy — discovered a comet orbiting Jupiter. In their honor, it ...

Twenty-five years ago, humanity first witnessed a collision between a comet and a planet. From July 16 to 22, 1994, enormous pieces of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9), discovered just a year prior, ...

In 1994, a comet collided with Jupiter. But, even before that fatal collision, the comet was exceptional for something else: the tool that had first discovered it a year earlier. io9’s comment of the ...

Astronomy lost a towering figure on Aug. 13 when Carolyn Shoemaker, one of the preeminent comet and asteroid hunters of her generation, died at age 92. Shoemaker didn’t take the most conventional path ...

From the archives: In 1994 comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 hit Jupiter, creating fireballs 2000 kilometres across – and raising US Congress alarm about what would happen if one hit Earth 24 July 2019 IT WAS, ...

Dean Regas chats with astronomer David Levy, unpacking the discovery of the famous Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. Listen in and find out how you can start chasing comets yourself. Looking Up is transcribed ...

The recent discovery of an asteroid seemingly on a near-collision course with Earth has heightened awareness of the real risk to our species and civilization posed by asteroids and their spectacular ...