NASA's Pleiades supercomputer simulations suggest the spiral shape is influenced by the Milky Way's gravity. This discovery could redefine our understanding of the solar system's boundaries and ...

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 ...

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

However, when they ran the numbers through the NASA’s Pleiades supercomputer, it came back with a mysterious structure for the inner part of the cloud that looked incredibly similar to the ...

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 ...

It was when NASA scientists fed all this data into the Pleiades supercomputer that they were able to obtain a structure of the inner part of the cloud that resembles the spiral of the Milky Way.

The discovery was made using NASA's Pleiades supercomputer. It simulated the behavior of the Oort Cloud — a vast, spherical shell of icy bodies at the edge of our solar system, beyond view.

New research founded upon a simulation using NASA’s Pleiades supercomputer has proposed that the Oort cloud takes on this spiral as a result of a phenomenon known as the Galactic tide, centered around ...

Feeding data on these comets along with other observations into an advanced model on NASA's Pleiades supercomputer, the researchers found evidence that the "flat disk" image could be outdated.