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

If our solar system seems stable, it's because our short lifespans make it seem that way. Earth revolves, night follows day, ...

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

An accidental discovery in an astronomy show offers researchers a new clue about the mysterious Oort Cloud, a large expanse ...

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

Scientists aimed ALMA at the comet in March 2024 and saw carbon monoxide — a gas that usually doesn’t show up in observations that far away — gushing out of its surface in jets. The team also picked ...

A team of scientists accidentally visualized a hidden spiral in the Oort Cloud, and it might change everything we know about ...

I enjoyed the new space show at the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium in New York City this week.

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

Scientists have long assumed the Oort Cloud, one of the most mysterious structures in our solar system, to be spherical.

Space artists can sometimes stretch scientific data for a bigger visual bang. At New York's natural history museum, they ...

The Oort Cloud, a large expanse of icy bodies revolving around the sun at a distance 1,000 times greater than the orbit of Neptune, is widely thought to be spherical — although it has never been ...