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 ...

Scientists have solved one of the solar system's enduring mysteries with the help of an unexpected source: a planetarium show. Last year, experts at the American Museum of Natural History were ...

Bennu's parent body is part of the Polana family of asteroids. A history of collisions created Bennu, and its original parent ...

advertisement 06-14-2025 PREMIUM How a planetarium show discovered a spiral at the edge of our solar system Space artists can sometimes stretch scientific data for a bigger visual bang.

The star is surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, and this disk is the first evidence of debris condensing into what will eventually become planets and other objects. Observing this early phase of ...

Stargazers are excited as a rare planet parade is expected to happen this weekend bringing some of the main characters of our ...

The textbook picture of how planets form – serene, flat discs of cosmic dust – has just received a significant cosmic twist.