Comet G3 is on its first voyage into the inner solar system, meaning it’s packed with volatile materials that have never been ...

"We were quite surprised," Dones continued. "Spirals are seen in Saturn's rings, disks around young stars and galaxies. The ...

NASA’s Pleiades model suggests a spiral in the Oort Cloud’s inner regio Galactic forces may have shaped the Oort Cloud into a ...

The proximity and the approach make Alpha Centauri a great case study for the spread of interstellar objects. That is why ...

We are surrounded by it: an odd spiral was seen close to the Milky Way. NASA Supercomputer Unveils Spiral Surprise at Solar ...

PUNCH isn't the only spacecraft studying the solar corona and the transition into the solar wind. NASA's Parker Solar Probe ...

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

This video is a part of a series looking at the Outer Solar System. The Oort Cloud is believed to be a vast cosmic shell at the edge of our Solar System that astronomers have never directly seen. The ...

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

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

A NASA supercomputer has unveiled a cosmic enigma at the solar system's edge, hinting at a miniature galaxy hidden in the icy ...

What they found was surprising: the inner Oort Cloud seems to form a spiral disk, stretching about 15,000 astronomical units (AU) long. 1 AU is the distance between the Sun and the Earth (149.4 ...