Yet it would still take it another 300 years to reach the inner edge of the Oort Cloud—and a staggering 30,000 to exit the ...

The NASA boffins in white coats and thick-rimmed glasses have detected new signals that show the Oort cloud - the spooky shell of icy objects at the very edge of our solar system - might have ...

New research suggests the Oort Cloud may have a spiral structure like a mini galaxy. Supercomputer models reveal its mysterious shape, offering new insights into the edge of our solar system.

The 20th-century Dutch astronomer Jan Oort, intrigued by the long-period comets, wrote a paper on them in 1950. He noted ...

The Oort Cloud, named after Dutch astronomer Jan Oort in 1950, is an extremely distant spherical shell of icy cloud, whose exact shape and how it behaves has remained a mystery since its discovery.

Yet it would still take it another 300 years to reach the inner edge of the Oort Cloud—and a staggering 30,000 to exit the outer edge. In 1950, Dutch astronomer Jan Oort—after whom the cloud ...