Humans generally like stability. We are used to our small, predictable world: Every 24 hours, we rotate on our axis; every 365 days, we revolve around the Sun. We have followed this pattern for ...
Astronomers have announced the discovery of an amazing object in our solar system: 2012 VP113, an icy body with an orbit so big it never gets closer than 12 billion kilometers (7.4 billion miles) from ...
The comet will make its closest approach to Earth in 2031, and it’s already attracting major attention from astronomers. Reading time 3 minutes Bernardinelli-Bernstein is officially the largest comet ...
The human mind may find it difficult to conceptualize a cosmic cloud so colossal it surrounds the Sun and eight planets as it extends trillions of miles into deep space. The spherical shell known as ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope turned to the famed ringed world of Saturn for its first near-infrared observations of the planet in 2023. The Oort clous is thought to have been formed by remnants ...
Like the newly-identified 2014 UN271, the NEOWISE comet pictured here is a long-period comet originating in the Oort Cloud. Photo by NASA Johnson via Flickr under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Amateur astronomers, ...
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2.5 Million Years Ago, a Star’s Pass Could Have Triggered a Comet Storm on Earth
New research suggests that the close passage of a nearby star,HD 7977, might have sent comets from the outer reaches of the ...
A huge comet that is entering the final stages of a multi-million year journey towards the sun has entered the inner part of our solar system and is due to make its closest pass to Earth in July.
We like to think of our Solar System as a stable, mostly quiet place. Sure, we'll find that the planets and other bodies in their orbits will kick around a comet or asteroid every once in a while, but ...
Spirals are a repeating theme in astronomy, with arguably the most famous example of a swirling armed structure being our ...
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