An accidental discovery in an astronomy show offers researchers a new clue about the mysterious Oort Cloud, a large expanse ...

Space artists can sometimes stretch scientific data for a bigger visual bang. At New York's natural history museum, they ...

The Oort Cloud is a vast, spherical shell of icy objects that surrounds our entire solar system, extending far beyond the orbits of the planets and dwarf planets. Thought to be the source of ...

A team of scientists accidentally visualized a hidden spiral in the Oort Cloud, and it might change everything we know about ...

Scientists have long assumed the Oort Cloud, one of the most mysterious structures in our solar system, to be spherical.

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show.

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system’s many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show that opened to ...

An accidental find during a planetarium show could potentially reshape scientists' understanding of the Oort Cloud, a ...

Freak accident’ finding has changed thinking on shape of the Oort Cloud, a theoretical area of deep space believed to be a ...

They were fine-tuning a scene featuring what’s known as the Oort Cloud, a region far beyond Pluto filled with icy relics from the solar system’s formation. Comets can hurtle toward Earth from ...

An accidental discovery might change how we think about one of the most mysterious structures in our solar system. The Oort Cloud, a large expanse of icy bodies revolving around the sun at a ...