In a nutshell: Far beyond the orbit of Pluto lies a mysterious region filled with icy objects circling the Sun. This distant zone, known as the Oort Cloud, remains unseen, but its existence is ...

I/ATLAS was first spotted by NASA scientists in May this year. Ever since, it has displayed behaviors that are not just ...

NASA's Pleiades supercomputer has provided fresh insights into the Oort cloud – a vast, theoretical spherical shell of icy objects that surrounds our solar system. For a long time, the Oort cloud's ...

New research may shine a light on part of outer space's great mysteries: the Oort Cloud. The Oort Cloud is the name given to ...

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ALMA captures surprising activity in comet C/2014 UN271, Bernardinelli-Bernstein comet, the largest ever detected.

The Oort Cloud comet — also known as the Tsuchinshan-ATLAS — will be lighting up the sky starting Oct. 9 MARIANA SUAREZ/AFP via Getty Stargazers will be able to witness a "once-in-a-lifetime" comet in ...

It will be a while before you can see it for yourself, however. Halley’s comet was last visible from Earth in 1986, meaning ...

Look up from your Shasta or Siskiyou backyard this weekend and you may see a visitor from the very edge of our solar system streaking across Northern California skies. Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is now ...

Just days after the northern lights illuminated the sky over New Jersey, the Garden State may be in for another show from space as a comet is expected to be visible throughout the rest of October, and ...

An ancient, vivid comet that astronomers recently discovered is glimmering in the sky, but may vanish and never be seen again after this year. Dubbed the "comet of the century" by social media users, ...

SPOKANE, Wash. -- A very old comet, just discovered in 2023, will be making an appearance in the night sky for the next couple of weeks. Comet C/2023 A3, also known as the Tsuchinshan-ATLAS*, will be ...