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

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

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

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

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 ...

The opening show projection showed the galaxy and the movement of celestial objects when they found something strange in the ...

The Oort Cloud, an expanse of icy bodies in the far reaches of our solar system, is shown here in a scene from "Encounters in the Milky Way," a show at New York City's Hayden Planetarium that spawned ...

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 astrophysicist ...