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Astronomers have spotted unusual molecular activity in the largest Oort Cloud comet, comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein (C/2014 ...

The fiery ball that streaked across the South Carolina sky Thursday could have been a meteorite, according to the National Weather Service.

Watch Comet 96P/Macholz brighten as it flies by the sun in these time-lapses captured by the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric ...

July will kick off with colorful flashes of light during Independence Day celebrations across the United States, but the ...

Claims that an asteroid or comet airburst destroyed the biblical Sodom captured the public’s imagination. Its retraction ...

Astronomers discovered that C/2014 UN271, a massive comet more than 10 times larger than any known comet, is emitting jets of ...

The next big space threat isn't to Earth. It's to the Moon.

NASA observes largest Oort Cloud comet, C/2014 UN271, exploding with CO gas jets, thanks to ALMA’s deep-space capabilities.

The monstrous 85-mile-wide comet C/2014 UN271 is the second most distant body originating from the Oort Cloud found to be ...