An accidental discovery in an astronomy show offers researchers a new clue about the mysterious Oort Cloud, a large expanse ...

Space artists can sometimes stretch scientific data for a bigger visual bang. At New York's natural history museum, they ...

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show.

The opening show projection showed the galaxy and the movement of celestial objects when they found something strange in the ...

A team of scientists accidentally visualized a hidden spiral in the Oort Cloud, and it might change everything we know about ...

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system’s many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show that opened to ...

An accidental find during a planetarium show could potentially reshape scientists' understanding of the Oort Cloud, a ...

One evening while watching the Oort Cloud scene, scientists noticed something strange projected onto the planetarium’s dome. “Why is there a spiral there?” said the museum’s Jackie Faherty.

For nearly three decades he has created mesmerizing planetarium shows at the American Museum of Natural History. But other ...

a projection on the planetarium’s dome revealed something strange within the Oort Cloud: a spiral. The curators were testing out a scene in September that includes a detailed view of Earth’s c ...

The Oort Cloud, an expanse of icy bodies in the far reaches of our solar system, is shown here in a scene from "Encounters in the Milky Way," a show at New York City's Hayden Planetarium that spawned ...