Something is throwing icy bodies past Neptune, and scientists have an interesting idea about what it might be.

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Of the 5,000 comets spotted by SOHO, only 75 belong to the Marsden ilk. Previous SOHO images had detected cometary shards and ...

Interestingly, LD 2 had a cometary outburst in 2017 that was detected by telescopes. But astronomers don't know whether the ...

As well as making it brighter, this should also allow it to develop an impressive cometary tail and offer some incredible photo opportunities. Although any projections made around comets can be ...

We caught up with Astronomy magazine editor-in-chief David Eicher to talk about key challenges facing our planet, the ...

Most meteor showers are the result of cometary debris, but the Geminids are linked to the unusual asteroid 3200 Phaethon - a rocky object with a comet-like orbit, which suggests it may have a ...

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There will be dozens of meteors streaking across the sky with tonight and tomorrow morning the best time to see them ...

The Oort Cloud is a very wide massive body of leftover cometary debris thought to orbit our solar system at distances of up to three light years. Astronauts won’t make the Oort Cloud anytime soon.

However, what scientists thought would be a two-year endeavor for the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, also known as SOHO, ...