Take a journey through the Milky Way galaxy, exploring the wonders of our solar system and the distant stars that illuminate the night sky. The Milky Way is home to over 100 billion stars, each with ...

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

Scientists want to study a distant world in the solar system that is classified as a dwarf planet. But some experts think it ...

Imagine waking up one morning to the news: a black hole is drifting close to our solar system. It sounds like the plot of a .

The Oort cloud has sent its biggest comet yet towards the inner solar system, and it is travelling at an insane speed, releasing jets of carbon monoxide.

NASA telescopes in Chile have discovered a comet from interstellar space, making its closest approach in October.

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

Recent observations have revealed carbon monoxide venting from the largest comet ever seen, providing clues about its origins ...

A star with mass comparable to our Sun passing within 10,000 astronomical units could significantly disrupt the Oort Cloud, which marks the outer boundary of our solar system beyond Pluto.

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 the outer reaches of our solar system, far beyond the orbit of Pluto, lies Sedna, one of the most mysterious objects ever ...