The impacts that started on July 16, 1994 ended on July 22, 1994, were captured by NASA’s Galileo orbiter that was enroute to ...

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 […] ...

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As Mashable reports, a video captured by an amateur astronomer in Japan shows a super-bright comet, also known as a bolide, exploding as it collides with Jupiter. A gas giant, Jupiter has a powerful ...

It’s suspected that about 5,000 years ago a comet swept within 23 million miles of the Sun, closer than the innermost planet Mercury. The comet might have been a spectacular sight to civilizations ...

The fate of Shoemaker-Levy 9 was actually far worse, as the orbit of the comet/s was destined to send the objects into the atmosphere of Jupiter! The impacts occurred in July, 1994, but on the dark ...

PASADENA, Calif. — Astronomers say Jupiter has apparently been struck by an object, possibly a comet. And it has the battle scars to prove it. Images taken by NASA early Monday show a scar in the ...