"We were quite surprised," Dones continued. "Spirals are seen in Saturn's rings, disks around young stars and galaxies. The ...

The Pleiades, Ptolemy's Cluster, the Large Magellanic Cloud — here's how to center the sky's brightest deep-sky wonders in ...

For the yet-to-be peer-reviewed study, scientists used NASA's Pleiades supercomputer to model the structure of the Oort cloud based on the trajectories of comets as well as the gravitational ...

The NASA simulation on its Pleiades supercomputer simulated the orbits of the comets and the gravitational pull on them, which revealed that the inner boundary of the Oort Cloud reaches an ...

Even the little-understood Oort Cloud, at the outer edges of our solar system beyond view, has a partly spiral structure.

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 ...

New research founded upon a simulation using NASA’s Pleiades supercomputer has proposed that the ... which has historically been understood only through scientists’ knowledge of distant comets.

Researchers used a supercomputer to model the structure of the Oort cloud based on the trajectories of comets as well as ... When researchers used Nasa's Pleiades supercomputer to simulate these ...

March's full moon, known as the Worm Moon, will bring a stunning total lunar eclipse, turning the Moon a deep reddish hue in ...