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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 ...

As per NASA, Oort Cloud is the most distant region in our solar system (Representational picture). A mysterious cloud of space rock and debris in the outer reaches of our solar system might resemble a ...

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 ...

New research may shine a light on part of outer space's great mysteries: the Oort Cloud. The Oort Cloud is the name given to a theorized group of potentially trillions of icy objects on the edge of ...

Pretty much every major telescope in the world is gearing up to witness a meeting that has been scheduled since long before humans walked the Earth. Around Thanksgiving, Comet ISON, a mountain-sized ...

The human mind may find it difficult to conceptualize: a cosmic cloud so colossal it surrounds the Sun and eight planets as it extends trillions of miles into deep space. The spherical shell known as ...

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 ...

Some of thecomets that make their way to Earth?s neighborhood from the frigid outerreaches of the solar system likely follow a different route than previouslythought, new modeling suggests. The ...

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 ...

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 ...