Scientists have discovered the largest comet in the Oort Cloud, a formation of icy bodies at the edge of the solar system. Recent observations found that this comet was bursting with activity, both ...

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, ...

This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Hubble photographed the comet on July 21, 2025, when the comet was 277 million miles from Earth. Hubble shows that the comet ...