Using advanced simulations run on NASA’s Pleiades supercomputer, researchers propose that the inner Oort cloud — a densely ...

That part called the "inner" Oort cloud is considered slightly more populated than the "outer" Oort cloud, which ranges from ...

According to the model, the arms of this inner Oort cloud extend 15,000 light-years from end to end.

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 ...

Using a NASA supercomputer to run models, researchers led by SwRI astronomer David Nesvorny now believe that the Inner Oort cloud looks like a spiral disk, around 0.24 light-years across ...

Specifically, some of the comets come from a denser region known as the "inner" Oort cloud, which has long been pictured as a flat disk sheltered within the greater cloud's spherical shell ...

Caption The orbits of the new extreme dwarf planet 2015 TG387 and its fellow Inner Oort Cloud objects 2012 VP113 and Sedna as compared with the rest of the Solar System. 2015 TG387 was nicknamed ...

The Oort Cloud is home to countless frozen bodies that occasionally get knocked toward the inner solar system, becoming the comets we see streaking through the sky. But until now, no one suspected ...

When researchers used Nasa's Pleiades supercomputer to simulate these forces, it modelled the Oort cloud as containing an inner structure similar to the spiral arms of the Milky Way galaxy.