A team of astronomers has made a groundbreaking discovery by detecting molecular activity in comet C/2014 UN271 ...

The monstrous 85-mile-wide comet C/2014 UN271 is the second most distant body originating from the Oort Cloud found to be ...

Astronomers discovered that C/2014 UN271, a massive comet more than 10 times larger than any known comet, is emitting jets of ...

On March 8, ALMA spotted a pair of jets blasting out of the comet's nucleus – its solid icy core. Spectrometry revealed that ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have uncovered the first direct evidence of molecular activity in comet C/2014 ...

NASA observes largest Oort Cloud comet, C/2014 UN271, exploding with CO gas jets, thanks to ALMA’s deep-space capabilities.

Stretching nearly a light-year from the Sun, the Oort Cloud serves as a cosmic reservoir of ancient material left over from the solar system’s formation over 4.5 billion years ago.

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show.

The orange dwarf Gliese 710 is expected to come within 0.1663 light-years or 10,520 astronomical units in about 1.29 million ...

The Oort Cloud, an expanse of icy bodies in the far reaches of our solar system, is shown here in a scene from "Encounters in the Milky Way," a show at New York City's Hayden Planetarium that ...

The Oort Cloud, an expanse of icy bodies in the far reaches of our solar system, is shown here in a scene from "Encounters in the Milky Way," a show at New York City's Hayden Planetarium that ...