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

The Vela explosion stands out as the most dramatic example, occurring when our planet was emerging from the last ice age around 13,000 years ago.

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

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

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 ...

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 that opened to ...

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

The Oort Cloud is the name given to a theorized group of potentially trillions of icy objects on the edge of our solar system. But while it has been accepted as a theory for over 70 years ...

The Oort cloud is a shell of icy objects that forms the very outskirts of our Solar System. Recently, a group of researchers discovered that the inner portion of the Oort cloud likely has spiral ...

The population of the Oort Cloud, often referred to as "trans-Neptunian bodies," is theorized to be composed of material that existed when our solar system's planets were forming around 4.5 ...