On March 8, ALMA spotted a pair of jets blasting out of the comet's nucleus – its solid icy core. Spectrometry revealed that ...

A 15th-century copper plate inscription from Srisailam reveals India's first epigraphic Halley`s Comet sighting, dated June ...

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

Thanks to ALMA’s powerful precision, scientists have now confirmed that comet C/2014 UN271 holds the title of the largest ...

A 15th-century copper plate from the Vijayanagara Empire has revealed India’s first direct mention of Halley’s Comet, proving ...

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

A remarkable archaeological discovery at the Mallikarjuna Swamy Temple in Srisailam, present-day Andhra Pradesh, has ...

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 ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have uncovered the first direct evidence of molecular activity in comet C/2014 ...

A copper plate inscription at Mallikarjuna Swamy Temple reveals India's first mention of Halley's Comet. The inscription ...

Smith, the former Astronomer Royal, who has died aged 102, was a pioneer of radio astronomy, carrying out research which ...

Thanks to a $367,088 grant funded by the National Science Foundation’s Major Research Instrumentation Program, Appalachian State University’s Dark Sky Observatory is receiving major upgrades to its la ...