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 ...

The Oort cloud is a shell of icy objects that forms the very outskirts of our Solar System. Recently, a group of researchers ...

Learn about the Oort cloud, a vast area beyond the inner solar system that is believed to contain icy objects arranged in a ...

"We found that some comets in the inner Oort cloud form a long-lasting spiral structure." Spirals are a repeating theme in ...

The Milky Way's tidal forces may be shaping the Oort Cloud's inner structure into a spiral shape.

The NASA boffins in white coats and thick-rimmed glasses have detected new signals that show the Oort cloud - the spooky ...

The mysterious Oort cloud is the source of many of our solar system's comets, but astronomers still have no idea what it ...

A mysterious cloud of space rock and debris in the outer reaches of our solar system might resemble a miniature galaxy, a new ...

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

The inner Oort cloud, between 1,000 and 10,000 AU from the sun, displays a spiral formation with arms that extend 15,000 AU.

A shell of icy objects at the edge of the solar system known as the Oort cloud has a pair of spiral arms that resemble a ...

Researchers claim that there could be at least 1 million interstellar objects hiding in the Oort Cloud at the edge of our ...