Walmart has been awarded a patent illustrating ‘disc-shaped’ robots that use sensors and cameras to transport and navigate shopping carts throughout stores. This application comes two months ...

But the simulations suggest that the inner Oort Cloud is not a nice, even, toroidal disk at all. Rather, it mirrors the shape of the Milky Way galaxy, with a spiral structure, and a warp to the disk ...

The inner Oort cloud, between 1,000 and 10,000 AU from the sun, displays a spiral formation with arms that extend 15,000 AU.

At a 5,000-year-old tomb in Spain, researchers found what is likely the largest known collection of beads ever discovered at a burial site ...

At the edge of our solar system, a host of large, icy bodies make up the Oort cloud, which appears to sport two spiral arms reminiscent of a disk-shaped galaxy. New research founded upon a simulation ...