According to a report released today by a team led by Andrew Becker of the University of Washington, an Oort Cloud object named 2006 SQ372 has been detected a little over three billion kilometres from Earth, a bi...
Subtle variations in the cosmic microwave radiation left over from the Big Bang may finally reveal the distant Oort Cloud, thought to send comets hurtling into the Solar System. Since the 1930s, astronomers have theorised that a spherical shell of icy objects surrounds the Solar System, 50,000 to...