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The icy giant is more than 10 times the size of any known comet, according to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
A MYSTERIOUS cosmic object has been spotted zooming through our solar system – and astronomers say it is only the third of ...
The Bernardinelli-Bernstein comet, located in the Oort Cloud, was observed by the ALMA to record the first evidence of active ...
The monstrous 85-mile-wide comet C/2014 UN271 is the second most distant body originating from the Oort Cloud found to be ...
Researchers got an up-close look at the largest comet ever observed, C/2014 UN271, ... Massive 85-mile-wide frozen giant comet observed near Neptune using powerful telescope in Chile.
On July 1, the ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope reported the discovery of A11pl3Z, an object whose orbit looked like it came from another star. Now we know that ...
A team of astronomers has made a groundbreaking discovery by detecting molecular activity in comet C/2014 UN271 ...
Venus moves east as July progresses and stands 3° due north of Aldebaran on the 14th, after skirting the northern regions of ...
NASA said the Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is racing toward its closest approach to the sun on its 71-year-long orbit. The orbit takes it as far away as the orbit of Neptune and as close as the orbit of ...
The comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has cliffs, boulders, ... the Irish astronomer Kenneth Edgeworth had suggested a population of such objects could exist beyond Neptune nearly 50 years earlier.
It really rocked their world. Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have better observed an asteroid that strangely possesses hybrid characteristics of a comet as well.. The strange rock ...
A large asteroid-comet hybrid that orbits between Neptune and Jupiter is an intriguing oddball as far as cosmic rocks go. Chiron, as the strange centaur is called, is what astronomers call a minor ...