The direct hit on Jupiter by Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 that summer sat on a destructive par with the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event that decimated three-quarters of earthly life, including all ...

Around seven asteroids or comets are thought to hit Saturn every year, but we have never spotted one in the act. Now, it ...

NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that's wandered into our backyard. Luckily, it won't get near enough to be a threat ...

The comet broke into 21 fragments, which continued to orbit around Jupiter. It was discovered the following year by Carolyn and Eugene M. Shoemaker, and David Levy and was the first comet ever ...

NASA has discovered a new interstellar comet that's currently located about 420 million miles away from Earth. The space ...

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 ...

The first was Comet C/1980 E1 (Bowell), which encountered Jupiter in 1980 and was similarly hurled out of the solar system, according to the astronomers' study.