Lucky is the word I’d use for any telescopic observers who got to see one of the most stunning spectacles in nature when Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacted Jupiter in July 1994. The collision left inky ...

LOS ANGELES -- An amateur stargazer in Australia spotted an Earth-sized gash on Jupiter, possibly caused by a collision with a comet, NASA scientists say. Using an infrared telescope in Hawaii, NASA ...

Scientists and astronomers are working to confirm what a handful of stargazers on two continents saw Monday: a bright flash of light in the atmosphere of Jupiter that was likely a space rock impacting ...

Scientists have found evidence that another object has bombarded Jupiter, exactly 15 years after the first impacts by the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. Following up on a tip by an amateur astronomer, ...

The Hubble Space Telescope, pressed into service before being fully tested after a recent repair mission, has sent back images of an immense scar that suddenly appeared on the surface of Jupiter. Some ...

Twenty-five years ago, humanity first witnessed a collision between a comet and a planet. From July 16 to 22, 1994, enormous pieces of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9), discovered just a year prior, ...

Ganymede is a moon that wears its scars with the resignation of an old veteran. Its furrowed crust speaks of harder times, its tilt like a limp from an injury it'd prefer to never speak of again.