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 ...
The Kuiper Belt could extend billions of miles farther than anyone thought. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's New Horizons ...
Far beyond Neptune, astronomers have finally confirmed a compact clump of icy worlds hiding inside the Kuiper Belt, a feature ...
Elon Musk tweeted that SpaceX Starship will travel across the solar system and to the cloud of objects around us. The cloud of objects around us are either referring to the Kuiper Belt (35-80AU and ...
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 ...
At the edge of our solar system, a host of large, icy bodies make up the Oort cloud, which appears to sport two spiral arms ...