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, ...

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 ...

Lucky is the word I’d use for any telescopic observers who got to see one of the most stunning spectacles in nature when Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacted Jupiter in July 1994. The collision left inky ...

There are many signs that the upcoming collision between comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and giant planet Jupiter is beginning to catch the imagination of the public. Numerous reports in the various media ...

The collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter provided a unique opportunity for cometary and planetary research, and led to an unprecedented observational campaign. As mentioned in the first ...