Mission control might never have witnessed Neil Armstrong take his first steps on the moon if it weren't for the vision of men like Eugene Shoemaker. Geologists Ivo Luccitta and Jerry Schaber say ...

Mission control might never have witnessed Neil Armstrong take his first steps on the moon if it weren’t for the vision of men like Eugene Shoemaker. Geologists Ivo Luccitta and Jerry Schaber say ...

A quarter century ago and thousands of miles away, a dramatic weeklong cosmic collision unfolded and helped the internet gain a foothold in people's lives. That's according to an environmental ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On February 12, 2001, NASA landed a spacecraft on an asteroid! After a five-year mission, the NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft touched ...

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, ...