"We found that some comets in the inner Oort cloud form a long-lasting spiral structure." Spirals are a repeating theme in ...

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 ...

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study team member and principal scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, told Space.com. (The measurement "au" stands for "astronomical unit," and one au is equal to the distance between ...

The inner Oort cloud, between 1,000 and 10,000 AU from the sun, displays a spiral formation with arms that extend 15,000 AU.

The Milky Way's tidal forces may be shaping the Oort Cloud's inner structure into a spiral shape.

She and her collaborators set out to investigate this by recruiting adolescents from rural, suburban, and urban communities in Southwest Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia in 2014.

Salt River Project hydrologists usually traipse into the high country to measure snow this time of year. The problem is, there isn't any.