Mysterious cloud at solar system’s edge found to host strange ‘mini galaxy’ - Oort cloud’s origin and shape can help unravel ...

The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...

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

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

Venus, the solar system's shiniest planet, reflects 75% of the sunlight. Scientists believe the planet's mirror-like quality is due to the composition of its atmosphere. The metallic clouds that ...

At the edge of our solar system, a host of large, icy bodies make up the Oort cloud, which appears to sport two spiral arms reminiscent of a disk-shaped galaxy. New research founded upon a simulation ...

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 ...

Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun, has held a vital (and smelly) secret of the solar system for decades ... in Uranus's cloud tops," according to a press release from Gemini Observatory ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a precursor molecular cloud is fairly uniform before ... of the gas and ice giants in the outer solar system. This first-order model of planetary growth ...

Narrator: Serious scientists, like myself, believe our solar system was formed by the collapse of a giant cloud of gas and rock and is held together by the gravitational pull of the Sun.

Previous research has suggested that the Oort cloud contains remnants of the solar system's planets, which were formed over 4 billion years ago, but its exact shape and structure have been a mystery.