Well he should, because those few brief seconds — in July of 1956 — gave young David Levy a star to wish upon for the rest of ...

What happens when a comet collides with a gas giant? In July 1994, Shoemaker-Levy 9 slammed into Jupiter in a spectacular series of 21 explosions, creating fireballs bigger than Earth itself. This was ...

The annual event celebrates the discovery of the little planet with a big heart and other scientific advances at Flagstaff, ...

This image from NASA’s Juno spacecraft captures several storms in Jupiter’s southern hemisphere (Figure A). Titanic blasts created by the impacts of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 fragments left Jupiter with ...

Michael Schumacher’s wife Corinna has confirmed an appeal has been lodged against the “lenient” punishment given to former family bodyguard Markus Fritsche. The sentence handed down to ...

On the world's first Asteroid Day, Nina Burleigh discovers that Nasa has already commissioned a team of 'planetary defenders' ...

Three men have been found guilty in a case of attempted blackmail against Formula 1 great Michael Schumacher's family. The perpetrators demanded 15m euros (£12.5m) from the family to avoid ...

Thomas Schumacher has written 1 shows including On the Record (Conceiver).