A newly discovered comet has astronomers excited, with the potential to be a spectacular sight in early April. C/2026 A1 (MAPS) was spotted by a team of four amateur astronomers with a remotely ...

An artist rendition of comet C/2014 UN271, the largest known comet in the Oort Cloud. Credit: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/M.Weiss A team of astronomers has made a groundbreaking discovery by detecting molecular ...

The object is known as C/2026 A1 (MAPS), discovered extremely recently on January 20 by a group of French amateur astronomers ...

A new comet approaching the sun has caught the attention of astronomers, primarily because of its lineage. It appears to ...

Astronomers have observedunexpected activity in C/2014 UN271, the largest comet ever detected from the Oort Cloud, while it remains over a billion miles from the Sun. Using the ALMA radio telescope, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists estimate 3I/ATLAS's nucleus may weigh over 33 billion tons, making it a cosmic ...

Over the past 2,000 years, a series of spectacular comets have graced our skies. Without fanfare, they appear seemingly from ...

A giant comet, likely the largest comet discovered in modern times, is on its way toward the sun. Scientists caught sight of the comet early, giving researchers years to watch it evolve and streak ...

NASA and the Hubble telescope have not confirmed the sheer massive size of 3I/ATLAS as mysterious object leaves solar system ...