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 ...
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its right-front navigation camera to capture this first view over the rim of Jezero ...
Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...
In 1994, telescopes caught Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashing into Jupiter, creating explosions larger than Earth and the most ...
If 3I/ATLAS is a naturally occurring comet, its close approach to the Sun could cause it to break apart into fragments.
Famed Tucson astronomer and comet hunter David Levy's future was in the stars. Dimly. Barely visible. Levy says he was 8 years old and walking back to his cabin at summer camp. "I happened to be ...
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 ...