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 ...

The impending collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 All 21 Fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 as spotted by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in May 1994. The length spans 710,000 miles (1,140,000 ...

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

Although the impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 seems like a once-in-a-lifetime event, impacts still occur at Jupiter. You might be lucky enough to catch one.

The NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) telescope in Rio Hurtado first spotted the object ...

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

Jupiter Comet Impact. This recent collision is not the first time Jupiter has been a spectator to such dramatic events. The most famous collision occurred in 1994 when the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 ...

For Jupiter — 11 times wider than our planet — this was a small impact event. Large collisions, like from Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 in 1994, left dark splotches on the Jovian surface, including ...