Image of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 taken in red light on a collision course with Jupiter. Its train of 21 icy fragments stretched across 710 thousand miles (1.1 million km) of space, or 3 times the ...

A new hypothesis suggests that the breaking apart and eventual collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 – the first space rock ever directly observed hitting another Solar System body, Jupiter ...

In July 1994, the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 slammed into Jupiter after breaking apart into many pieces. ... Shoemaker-Levy 9, in March, 1994, four months before its collision with Jupiter.

When comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 smashed into Jupiter in 1994, ... pieces of the comet smashed into the planet Jupiter. The collision produced scars that were visible from Earth.

Take that, Jupiter!The largest planet in the solar system just got whacked by an asteroid or a comet, and some intrepid stargazers have captured the planet's latest collision on camera.

A shattered comet _ some of its pieces perhaps 2 or 3 miles in diameter _ is racing toward a July collision with the planet Jupiter. Search. Subscribe. Manage profile. Donate.

The observations were possible thanks to a serendipitous event: a comet colliding with Jupiter. Back in 1994, comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 slammed into the gas giant.

NASA has discovered the third known interstellar object to pass through our solar system, but the icy snowball object poses ...

Now, new research reveals that the comet collision not only gave Jupiter scars big enough to be seen from small telescopes on Earth; the ice-filled comet also dropped loads of water onto the ...

Comet 111P/Helin-Roman-Crockett, which has already orbited Jupiter three times between 1967 and 1985, is due to complete six laps of the giant planet between 2068 and 2086. IMAGES ...