Interstellar material has been discovered in our solar system, but researchers continue to hunt for where it came from and ...

A mysterious cloud of space rock and debris in the outer reaches of our solar system might resemble a miniature galaxy, a new study has claimed. The Oort Cloud, named after Dutch astronomer Jan Oort ...

In research highlighted in a new paper, published today in The Astrophysical Journal, Scientia Senior Lecturer Ben Montet and PhD candidate Brendan McKee analysed changes in the timing of a known ...

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

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The mysterious Oort cloud is the source of many of our solar system's comets, but astronomers still have no idea what it looks like. Now, new simulations may have given them a first glimpse.

Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...

After identifying an unusual trend in the movement of the hot Jupiter planet TOI-2818b, the team, from the UNSW School of Physics, ran a series of model ... in our solar system orbit the sun ...

Groundbreaking research reveals the Oort Cloud's shape as a spiral structure, challenging traditional beliefs about its random collection. NASA's Plei ...

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 ...