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Comet 3I/ATLAS will get as close as 210 million kilometers (130 million miles) from the Sun, far beyond the orbit of Earth, ...
I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...
NASA said the comet poses no threat to Earth and will stay at a distance of some 240 million kilometers. It is now at a distance of some 4.5 astronomical units (some 416 million miles or 670 million ...
The Bernardinelli-Bernstein comet, located in the Oort Cloud, was observed by the ALMA to record the first evidence of active ...
A team of astronomers has made a groundbreaking discovery by detecting molecular activity in comet C/2014 UN271 ...
On March 8, ALMA spotted a pair of jets blasting out of the comet's nucleus – its solid icy core. Spectrometry revealed that ...
The monstrous 85-mile-wide comet C/2014 UN271 is the second most distant body originating from the Oort Cloud found to be ...
The Oort cloud has sent its biggest comet yet towards the inner solar system, and it is travelling at an insane speed, ...
Vomit Comet “These measurements give us a look at how this enormous, icy world works,” said lead author Nathan Roth of American University and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. “We’re seeing explosive ...
Astronomers have discovered a gigantic comet, possibly the largest ever, which is emitting jets of carbon monoxide from its interior.
China's Tianwen-2 probe has commenced its decade-long deep space mission, capturing a stunning image of Earth and the Moon ...
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 ...