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 ...
Whistling and moaning, a 50-mile-an-hour (80-kilometer-an-hour) wind whipped among the telescope domes atop Kitt Peak. Just a few feet below, turning gray in the dusk, slid a river of clouds that ...
ESA's Space Safety program has received permission to begin preparatory work for the Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety (Ramses), aimed at studying asteroid 99942 Apophis. The Shoemaker-Levy 9 ...