Grants Provide Vital Funding To The International Asteroid-Tracking Community To Track and Characterize Asteroids Posing Threats to Humanity PASADENA, CA, (November 20, 2012) – The Planetary Society, ...

“Cataclysmic impacts are a fact of life in our solar system,” said Planetary Society Director of Projects Bruce Betts. “Asteroids or comets have hit the Earth many times in our past, but now we have ...

Lake Wawasee - Gene Eldon Shoemaker, 93, formerly of North Fort Myers, died Friday, December 13, 2019. He was born November 29, 1926, in Denver, Indiana and was married to the late Grace Elizabeth ...

Next week marks the 30th anniversary of the date that Gene and Carolyn Shoemaker began their ascendancy from well-known scientists to world-famous legends. They had long been cemented as leading ...

Composite images of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 orbiting Jupiter in 1994. In 1993, three sky watchers — Carolyn and Gene Shoemaker and David Levy — discovered a comet orbiting Jupiter. In their honor, it ...

When Steve Squyres played poker late at night during his college days, he dreamed of becoming a name in the scientific community. Squyres continued to fulfill that dream Thursday when he was awarded ...

G. Jeffrey Taylor, Professor in the Hawai’i Institute of Geophysics & Planetology, University of Hawai’i (Manoa), was presented the 2011 Shoemaker Distinguished Lunar Scientist Award at the annual ...