Planetariums were a hit with the public. Within decades, they had spread around the world – the first planetarium in the ...

But in the process of visualizing data for their latest planetarium show, a production team at New York’s American Museum of Natural History made a surprising discovery of their own: a trillion ...

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 ...

An accidental discovery in an astronomy show offers researchers a new clue about the mysterious Oort Cloud, a large expanse of icy bodies revolving around the sun.

NEW YORK — Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system’s many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show that opened to the public on June 2. At the American Museum of Natural ...

Scientists may have been given new information on one of the solar system’s many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show opening to the public on June 7. At the American Museum of ...

The spiral is "a striking shift in our understanding of the outer solar system," planetary scientist Andre Izidoro with Rice University, who was not involved with the study, said in an email. The ...

Science Accidental discovery at a planetarium leads to mind-blowing revelation about one of the solar system’s greatest mysteries By Associated Press Published June 3, 2025, 3:12 p.m. ET ...

Scientists have solved one of the solar system's enduring mysteries with the help of an unexpected source: a planetarium show. Last year, experts at the American Museum of Natural History were ...

In the 1700s, the orrery, a clockwork model of the Solar System, was developed. The word "planetarium" was invented to describe orreries that featured the planets. One room-sized orrery example was ...