The orange dwarf Gliese 710 is expected to come within 0.1663 light-years or 10,520 astronomical units in about 1.29 million ...

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

Scientists believe a huge bubble surrounds our solar system, called the Oort Cloud. The huge bubble is the farthest region of ...

Space artists can sometimes stretch scientific data for a bigger visual bang. At New York's natural history museum, they ...

For nearly three decades he has created mesmerizing planetarium shows at the American Museum of Natural History. But other ...

A routine planetarium show at New York’s Hayden Planetarium just triggered a potentially historic discovery in astrophysics.

An accidental find during a planetarium show could potentially reshape scientists' understanding of the Oort Cloud, a ...

The Oort Cloud is a vast, spherical shell of icy objects that surrounds our entire solar system, extending far beyond the orbits of the planets and dwarf planets. Thought to be the source of ...

Scientists have long assumed the Oort Cloud, one of the most mysterious structures in our solar system, to be spherical.