After defending his PhD thesis on modeling interstellar objects on Monday, June 30, Matthew Hopkins intended to take some ...

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

Astronomers have uncovered new details about an extraordinary object hurtling through thesolar system. A comet with ...

AN INTERSTELLAR space rock zooming through our solar system may be the oldest comet ever seen by humans, according to ...

After running a new kind of computer simulation, scientists believe the comet originated from a rarely seen corner of the ...

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

The moon and Saturn will be visible to the naked eye that morning, but skywatchers will need a telescope to see the “far ...

Watch the waning gibbous moon, Saturn, and Neptune meet in the night sky around midnight on July 16. The trio will travel ...

The comet was spotted in deep space near Neptune. NASA Goddard “These measurements give us a look at how this enormous, icy world works,” Roth said.

Neptune remains about 1° north of Saturn all month, making it easier to identify than usual. A waning gibbous Moon stands 3° north of Saturn on July 16, ... Comet Search: Magnitude mashing ...

A large asteroid-comet hybrid that orbits between Neptune and Jupiter is an intriguing oddball as far as cosmic rocks go. Chiron, as the strange centaur is called, is what astronomers call a minor ...

The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 seen above the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert in February 2025.