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Astronomers have confirmed the third interstellar object on record is dashing through our solar system. Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it ...
Astronomers have made an exciting discovery: a massive, shining object racing through our solar system. The object, which was ...
Astronomers have confirmed that a recently spotted object is an interstellar visitor, and appears to have come from the ...
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: ...
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 ...
The Goblin, or 2015 TG38 as it’s more formally called, is what’s known as an extreme trans-Neptunian object, or ETNO. As the moniker implies, these objects, of which there are potentially ...
Kuiper Belt objects are important because scientists believe they represent, preserved by the deep freeze of space, pristine remnants of the disk from which the solar system was created.
Astronomers have spotted the most distant object in our solar system, which could challenge the theories about how our planets formed. Using the Subaru telescope located on the summit of Mauna ...
The third object known to have entered the Solar System from interstellar space has an origin unlike either of its ...
The Hunt for Planet Nine 11:37. A team of astronomers has confirmed the orbit of a distant planetoid at the farthest reaches of our solar system — aptly nicknamed "Farfarout." ...