Asteroid hunter Jacqueline Fazekas started the evening of Sept. 4, 2024, much like she spends half of every lunar month: ...

The Shoemaker’s and Levy co-discovered the comet. The emotional payoff of discovering a comet orbiting a planet was something Levy described as a “magic day,” which occurred on March 23, 1993.

Back in 1994, the gas giant was pelted with pieces of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 over the course of several days, an event that according to NASA left "huge, dark scars in the planet's atmosphere ...

BOSLOUGH, MARK B. E. and CRAWFORD, DAVID A. 1997. Shoemaker‐Levy 9 and Plume‐forming Collisions on Eartha. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 822 ...

Levy, who was a discoverer of Astronomer Levy (author of last year's Shoemaker by Levy) is best known as the co-discoverer of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which slammed into Jupiter in 1994.

Project. We’ll know more in two weeks. That’s the headline news about Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, which could become a naked-eye object in late September and mid-October as seen from the northern ...

We provide the latest details on this comet, which might (or might not!) blossom into a bright naked-eye object in our October evening skies. We are now coming down the home stretch regarding ...

A comet heading towards our planet might be visible to the naked eye in the next few months. The comet, named Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), was first discovered in early 2023, and has been ...

One expert predicts that the comet could reach peak brightness by the second week of October, nearly as bright as Venus, making it faintly visible even in daylight. We could see a comet pass ...

The last time the comet was spotted was 50,000 years ago. Nasa officials said the icy visitor was first spotted in March 2022 while it was inside the orbit of Jupiter. It has been visible to those ...

A video filmed by NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick shows a rare glimpse of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS as seen from the International Space Station. Tiny black hole "bullets" left over from the Big ...

We are now coming down the home stretch regarding comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS. First sighted at China's Purple Mountain Observatory on Jan. 9, 2023 and independently on Feb. 22 by the Asteroid Terrestrial ...