Hubble spots the farthest inbound comet so far

This frozen traveller shows the earliest signs of activity

Chemicals on comets provide clearer snapshot of a young Solar System

These primordial bodies contain material largely unchanged from the birth of the Solar System some 4.6 billion years ago

Funky light signal provides evidence for black hole ‘death spiral’

Two space telescopes have provided the most compelling confirmation yet for a collision between two black holes

How big is the Solar System?

We find out how vast our solar neighbourhood really is

What do we know about the Oort Cloud?

It holds dwarf planets and it’s poisonous – that’s just two facts about this comet-laden object

Where did life on Earth come from?

Neil DeGrasse Tyson poses one of life’s biggest questions in this Sunday’s episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

What is the Oort cloud?

What is the is region of space at the edge of the Solar System?

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