The boundary of a solar system is not defined by planets, but by gravity. Beyond Pluto and the Kuiper Belt lies the Oort ...

What lies beyond Pluto and the Kuiper Belt? Today we explore the Oort Cloud a vast, invisible shell of trillions of icy bodies that may stretch nearly two light-years from the Sun. Though never ...

NASA's Pleiades supercomputer has provided fresh insights into the Oort cloud – a vast, theoretical spherical shell of icy objects that surrounds our solar system. For a long time, the Oort cloud's ...

486958 Arrokoth in the Kuiper Belt, previously called 2014 MU69 and nicknamed "Ultima Thule" was the farthest object in the solar system visited by a spacecraft when NASA's New Horizons conducted a ...

"Basically, we detected a water–ice reservoir." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. At long last, particles of water–ice have been ...