An accidental discovery in an astronomy show offers researchers a new clue about the mysterious Oort Cloud, a large expanse ...

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

A team of scientists accidentally visualized a hidden spiral in the Oort Cloud, and it might change everything we know about ...

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

a projection on the planetarium’s dome revealed something strange within the Oort Cloud: a spiral. The curators were testing out a scene in September that includes a detailed view of Earth’s c ...

One evening while watching the Oort Cloud scene, scientists noticed something strange projected onto the planetarium's dome. “Why is there a spiral there?” said Jackie Faherty, an ...

said the museum's Jackie Faherty. open image in gallery New planetarium show revealed a backwards S-shaped spiral in what's known as the Oort Cloud far beyond Pluto (American Museum of Natural ...