Rocky fireballs like the one that fell over Alberta, Canada last year shouldn't originate from the icy Oort Cloud... but this one apparently did. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope turned to the famed ringed world of Saturn for its first near-infrared observations of the planet in 2023. The Oort clous is thought to have been formed by remnants ...

ALMA captures surprising activity in comet C/2014 UN271, Bernardinelli-Bernstein comet, the largest ever detected.

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 distance ...

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show. At the American Museum of Natural History last fall, experts were hard at work preparing ...

The comet blazing into South Carolina skies this weekend won't zoom by Earth again for another 80,000 years. It emerged from the mysterious Oort Cloud, a bubble-shaped phenomenon that contains our ...

Discovery of 2017OF201, a large trans-Neptune Object, challenges previous beliefs about the Kuiper Belt and hints at the ...

An international team of 45 researchers studying meteor showers has found that not all comets crumble the same way when they approach the Sun An international team of 45 researchers studying meteor ...

Feb. 23 (UPI) --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 miniature galaxy, new research suggests. Until now, the shape ...