A team of astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian has discovered a rare object far beyond ...

A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the ...

The object, which measured 115 metres long, 364 metres wide, and 19 metres depth, was subsequently confirmed as the first body to have come from a planetary system beyond our own. Oumaumua, (which ...

Astronomers have confirmed that a recently spotted object is an interstellar visitor, and appears to have come from the ...

Astronomers have announced the discovery of A11pl3Z, a massive new interstellar object entering our solar system.

TNOs, planetary bodies located beyond Neptune, are icy remnants of the early Solar System. Deflected into orbits closer to the Sun in the region of the giant planets, some become Centaurs ...

Oumuamua could not have obtained its velocity from any known object in the Solar System. We have a complete census of objects big enough to do it within a volume out to 21 AU.

Predictions of the LSST Solar System Yield: Near-Earth Objects, Main Belt Asteroids, Jupiter Trojans, and Trans-Neptunian Objects. The Astronomical Journal (submitted to arXiv) , 2025 DOI: 10.3847 ...

The speed and trajectory of the object A/2017 U1 suggested that it did not come from our Solar System, and that it will leave our Solar System again. ‘Oumuamua, as it is now called, was our ...

Our solar system may not be as isolated as we once thought. According to a new study, more than 1 million interstellar objects could be lurking in the outer reaches of our cosmic neighborhood ...

37,000 trans-Neptunian objects, residents of the distant Kuiper Belt — nearly 10 times the current census — shedding light on Neptune’s past migration and the outer solar system’s history.