Meanwhile, Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, who flagged at least 16 anomalies on 3I/ATLAS has reiterated intensive monitoring ...

After passing Earth, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will fly close to Jupiter and its moon Eupheme in March 2026, marking a key moment in its outbound journey ...

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Astronomers have discovered 2017 OF21, a mysterious dwarf planet in the solar system's frozen outskirts. This video explores this distant exile, which takes 25,000 years to orbit the Sun and travels ...

Discovered in 2012 by the Mount Lemmon Survey in Arizona, this long-period comet is part of a rare group of icy bodies that hail from the Oort Cloud. The Oort Cloud, a vast region of space that lies ...

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Not all Vatican Observatory research is done by Vatican astronomers. This is illustrated by the paper, “A Dormant Captured Oort Cloud Comet Awakens: (18916) 2000 OG 44 ”, published this June in the ...

A composite image showing the five dwarf planets recognized by the International Astronomical Union, plus the newly discovered trans-Neptunian object 2017 OF201. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech; image of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The largest comet ever found has jets of carbon monoxide gas ...

There’s a giant ball of ice barreling through the solar system right now, and it’s bigger than any we’ve seen before. It poses no threat to Earth, but this comet, called C/2014 UN271 ...