The comet will make its closest approach to Earth in 2031, and it’s already attracting major attention from astronomers. Reading time 3 minutes Bernardinelli-Bernstein is officially the largest comet ...

K2 is the farthest comet ever captured by the NASA Hubble telescope. NASA, ESA. NASA has photographed the farthest active comet entering the solar system, at a whopping distance of 1.5 billion miles ...

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 a theorized group of potentially trillions of icy objects on the edge of ...

An accidental discovery might change how we think about one of the most mysterious structures in our solar system. The Oort Cloud, a large expanse of icy bodies revolving around the sun at a distance ...

Discover the secrets of the Oort Cloud: astronomers unveil a comet from the inner Oort Cloud with hints about solar system formation. Astronomers have spotted an icy object near Neptune that they say ...

In the farthest reaches of our solar system, beyond the familiar planets and even the icy Kuiper Belt, lies a mysterious ...

Groundbreaking research reveals the Oort Cloud's shape as a spiral structure, challenging traditional beliefs about its random collection. NASA's Pleiades supercomputer simulations suggest the spiral ...

Spirals are a repeating theme in astronomy, with arguably the most famous example of a swirling armed structure being our home galaxy, the Milky Way. Now, using a powerful NASA supercomputer called ...

To all intents and purposes, in the current architecture of the Solar System, Sedna and 2012 VP 113 should not be there. These objects are in a no-man's-land between the giant planets and the Oort ...