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Comet C/2014 UN271 is one of the largest Oort Cloud comets ever observed, measuring 140 km across. It’s currently at a distance of 16.5 AU from the Sun, which makes

The early Universe was a busy place some 13 billion years ago. That’s when countless young galaxies began to evolve and birthed stars at a prodigious rate. The hearts of

More than one third of the regular matter in the Universe is missing (we’re not talking about dark matter, just regular matter). It’s needed to make the current cosmological models

Solar eclipses are beautiful, but they’re a valuable chance to study the Sun’s atmosphere as its surface is blocked by the Moon. Now, ESA can generate artificial solar eclipses from

Scientists are using a new approach to find the mysterious – if it exists – Planet Nine by hunting for its heat signature instead of reflected light. Using data from

Stephen Hawking has made a compelling case that black holes eventually evaporate, but the time scales are beyond our ability to detect it. A new paper suggests that primordial black

The Chinese Space Agency took a major step toward its 2030 lunar mission goals this week by successfully testing the escape system of its next-generation Mengzhou spacecraft. At the Jiuquan

You’re probably aware that most of the matter of the Universe is “dark matter,” and astronomers still don’t know what it is. But 75% of the regular matter in the

Black holes can accumulate planets and stars’ worth of material, but even they have their limits. Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole which has reached that limit. Excess material

The Vera C. Rubin is a game changing observatory that we’ve been keeping our eyes on. When it goes online, it’ll begin a 10 year survey of the southern sky,