We typically think of the Oort cloud as scattered ice balls floating far from the sun, yet still tied to it gravitationally.

A NASA supercomputer has discovered more about what's known as the mysterious Oort cloud. The strange shell of icy objects sits at the edge of the solar system and is thought to be the source of many ...

A diagram showing the many layers of our solar system, including the mysterious Oort Cloud (via NASA) A group of astronomers from the US, Europe, Chile and South Africa have determined that 70,000 ...

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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 ...

The Oort cloud, a theoretical spherical shell surrounding our solar system, extends from approximately 1,000-2,000 AU to potentially 100,000 AU, halfway to Alpha Centauri. Its existence is inferred ...

The Oort cloud is a shell of icy bodies that surrounds the solar system. It begins beyond the Kuiper Belt and even beyond the influence of the sun’s magnetic field, technically in interstellar space.

If the Oort Cloud is three light years away from our Sun, then it's closer to Alpha Centauri than our Sun, right? So how can it stay around our Sun if the mass of Alpha Centauri is 1.1 times the mass ...

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Planet-hunters scouring the heavens have found thousands of distant worlds around other stars, but astronomers may have overlooked one lurking much closer to home. Scientists searching for glimmers of ...

The Oort Cloud, an expanse of icy bodies in the far reaches of our solar system, is shown here in a scene from "Encounters in the Milky Way," a show at New York City's Hayden Planetarium that spawned ...