The Bernardinelli-Bernstein comet, located in the Oort Cloud, was observed by the ALMA to record the first evidence of active ...

Sedna will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2076, giving us a rare opportunity to visit the planetoid before it drifts ...

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show.

The Oort cloud lies beyond Neptune. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Oort cloud is a shell of icy bodies that surrounds ...

It appears our solar system is getting more popular with out-of-towners. Astronomers have found a third interstellar object, ...

The monstrous 85-mile-wide comet C/2014 UN271 is the second most distant body originating from the Oort Cloud found to be ...

A team of astronomers has made a groundbreaking discovery by detecting molecular activity in comet C/2014 UN271 ...

Astronomers discovered that C/2014 UN271, a massive comet more than 10 times larger than any known comet, is emitting jets of ...

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 ...

New Oort Cloud comets are discovered all the time, a dozen or so per year in recent years. The odds of any of them colliding ...

The inner edge of the Oort cloud is typically quoted as beginning at somewhere between 1,000 and 5,000 au from the Sun. 5,000 au is about 0.08 light years away from the Sun, which is a little over ...

“The Oort cloud planets in our simulations would be much more distant than the proposed Planet Nine orbit—at least 10 times further away,” explains Kaib.