NASA astronaut Don Pettit used a camera with low light and long duration settings to capture this Jan. 29, 2025, image of the ...

New research suggests the Oort Cloud may have a spiral structure like a mini galaxy. Supercomputer models reveal its ...

A curious connection between an ancient supernova and virus diversification in one of Earth's biggest lakes means that crazy ...

The NASA boffins in white coats and thick-rimmed glasses have detected new signals that show the Oort cloud - the spooky ...

At the edge of the Milky Way, there are a surprising number of hyper-fast stars that originate from outside. They apparently ...

Chinese astronomers have analyzed the data from NASA's Swift observatory, which extensively observed an outburst of the ...

An international team of researchers, led by the University of Vienna, has revealed that the Solar System passed through the ...

What they found was surprising: the inner Oort Cloud seems to form a spiral disk, stretching about 15,000 astronomical units (AU) long. 1 AU is the distance between the Sun and the Earth (149.4 ...

Astronomers believe they’ve uncovered what could be an “interstellar tunnel” in our cosmic backyard —one that might serve as ...