In a groundbreaking discovery, NASA's Pleiades supercomputer has revealed an unexpected spiral structure within the inner ...

Even the little-understood Oort Cloud, at the outer edges of our solar system beyond view, has a partly spiral structure.

The study of the universe is a subject that never ceases to amaze the scientific community. If being able to know what is beyond our atmosphere has been something that has always b ...

The Oort cloud is traditionally thought of as a vast shell of perhaps trillions of icy objects encasing our solar system, the final boundary between us and the reaches of interstellar space. But it's ...

"We were quite surprised," Dones continued. "Spirals are seen in Saturn's rings, disks around young stars and galaxies. The ...

However, when they ran the numbers through the NASA’s Pleiades supercomputer, it came back with a mysterious structure for the inner part of the cloud that looked incredibly similar to the ...

For the yet-to-be peer-reviewed study, scientists used NASA's Pleiades supercomputer to model the structure of the Oort cloud based on the trajectories of comets as well as the gravitational ...

The study, shared in the pre-print journal Arxiv, used NASA’s powerful Pleiades supercomputer to figure out what the Oort Cloud might look like. Scientists tracked the paths of comets and considered ...

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Most of the long-period comets in the Solar System come from the outer Oort Cloud. The inner region is much more stable. It's ...