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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

While putting together a planetarium show, the museum’s experts weren’t expecting a window into the universe’s inner workings ...

As explained in a pre-press paper [PDF] titled “Discovery of a dwarf planet candidate in an extremely wide orbit: 2017 OF201”, in 2014 scientists used Chile’s Blanco 4m telescope for a project called ...

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 ...