What lies beyond Pluto and the Kuiper Belt? Today we explore the Oort Cloud a vast, invisible shell of trillions of icy bodies that may stretch nearly two light-years from the Sun. Though never ...

The boundary of a solar system is not defined by planets, but by gravity. Beyond Pluto and the Kuiper Belt lies the Oort Cloud, extending up to a light year from the Sun and still considered part of ...

NASA's Pleiades supercomputer has provided fresh insights into the Oort cloud – a vast, theoretical spherical shell of icy objects that surrounds our solar system. For a long time, the Oort cloud's ...

Trying to understand the makeup and evolution of the solar system's Kuiper belt has kept researchers busy since it was hypothesized soon after the discovery of Pluto in 1930. In particular, binary ...