Using a NASA supercomputer to run models, researchers led by SwRI astronomer David Nesvorny now believe that the Inner Oort cloud looks like a spiral disk, around 0.24 light-years across, with two ...

The Oort cloud is a shell of icy objects that forms the very outskirts of our Solar System. Recently, a group of researchers ...

Learn about the Oort cloud, a vast area beyond the inner solar system that is believed to contain icy objects arranged in a ...

The triple star system is sending comets, asteroids and meteors our way, and the number of interstellar objects entering the solar system will rise.

A mysterious cloud of space rock and debris in the outer reaches of our solar system might resemble a miniature galaxy, a new ...

The NASA boffins in white coats and thick-rimmed glasses have detected new signals that show the Oort cloud - the spooky ...

The mysterious Oort cloud is the source of many of our solar system's comets, but astronomers still have no idea what it ...

A shell of icy objects at the edge of the solar system known as the Oort cloud has a pair of spiral arms that resemble a ...

New research suggests the Oort Cloud may have a spiral structure like a mini galaxy. Supercomputer models reveal its ...

The inner Oort cloud, between 1,000 and 10,000 AU from the sun, displays a spiral formation with arms that extend 15,000 AU.

We typically think of the Oort cloud as scattered ice balls floating far from the sun, yet still tied to it gravitationally.

Researchers claim that there could be at least 1 million interstellar objects hiding in the Oort Cloud at the edge of our ...