The Oort cloud is a shell of icy objects that forms the very outskirts of our Solar System. Recently, a group of researchers ...
New research may shine a light on part of outer space's great mysteries: the Oort Cloud. The Oort Cloud is the name given to ...
"It is a great stroke of luck that Aditya-L1 was able to witness such a strong flare right at the beginning of its research ...
Most of the long-period comets in the Solar System come from the outer Oort Cloud. The inner region is much more stable. It's ...
A new mission designed to better understand the heliosphere will be the first to map in three dimensions how the solar corona ...
If confirmed, this would mean that the Sun's gravity is not solely the force acting on the outer reaches of the solar system ... Even NASA's Voyager 1 space probe, moving at one million miles ...
The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, Amy Simon (NASA-GSFC), Michael H. Wong (UC Berkeley) / VISUALIZATION: Joseph ...
The Oort cloud can (in general) be split into an inner cloud and an outer ... Solar System once again. Jackie is a writer and editor from Pennsylvania. She's especially fond of writing about space ...
This shell is believed to mark the outer boundary of the solar system and is the source of comets that visit the inner solar system, the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn, and the inner rocky planets ...
NASA’s PUNCH mission is launching to study the Sun’s corona and solar wind using a network of four small satellites. By ...
The mission, called PUNCH – which stands for Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere – is a collection of four ...