Astronomers have detected the largest comet ever recorded in the solar system — Bernardinelli-Bernstein, a colossal 100-kilometer-wide space giant, currently traveling toward the sun from the distant ...

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"We have the privilege of having discovered perhaps the largest comet ever seen." It has not visited the solar system in more than 3 million years. People here on Earth will likely need to rely on ...

A gigantic comet is actually the largest ever seen, new observations by the Hubble Space Telescope confirm. Stretching about 80 miles (129 kilometers) across, the nucleus (or solid center ...

A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the night sky last month. Veteran comet hunters have called G3 (ATLAS) the "Great Comet of 2025" due ...

Credit: NASA illustration Bernardinelli-Bernstein made news in 2022 when scientists confirmed it as the largest comet observed so far, spanning the length of three marathons end-to-end.

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With an orbital period that large, the comet — scientifically named C/2022 E3 (ZTF), according to NASA — won't likely be spotted by Earthlings after this month! In fact, the last time this ...

The Perseids occur each year when the Earth plows through a stream of space rubble left behind by a large comet called Swift-Tuttle. Bits of debris going over 100,000 miles per hour strike the ...