OTTAWA, ONTARIO — Two decades after the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 slammed into Jupiter, co-discoverer David Levy expressed delight that water in the planet's atmosphere was recently traced back to the ...

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 ...

Eugene Shoemaker, the founder of astrogeology, dedicated his life to understanding planetary formation through impacts. His ...

Today, I would like to tell you what it would be like to live on my favorite comet, Shoemaker-Levy 9. But I can’t. Not really anyways, because it no longer exists. Well, technically it exists. But now ...

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 ...

Researchers are reporting Herschel observations of water in Jupiter's stratosphere. It is a clear remnant of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet impact on Jupiter nearly 20 years ago. Astronomy & Astrophysics ...

IT WAS, we wrote on 23 July 1994, the astronomical event of the century: the first time we had ever had advanced notice of a collision between a comet and a planet. And it lived up to its billing.

Twenty years ago on this day—July 16, 1994—Jupiter got slammed, hard, by a comet. It was the first time we had ever witnessed such a collision on a planetary body other than the Earth. I’ll note I’m ...

The Chelyabinsk meteor went undetected until it exploded over Russia in 2013. The 60-foot-wide rock burst with a shock wave that injured 1,500 people and damaged 7,000 buildings across six cities. The ...

Alan Turing the new face on the £50 note, how the moon landing inspired volcanologist Lionel Wilson's 50-year career, and 25 years ago, comet Shoemaker-Levy smashed into Jupiter. Show more ...

Amateur astronomer David Levy delivers a lecture to a branch of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada in Ottawa, May 31, 2013. Elizabeth Howell OTTAWA, ONTARIO — Two decades after the comet ...