Caption This artist's impression shows the first interstellar object discovered in the Solar System, Oumuamua. Observations made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and others show that the ...

A trio of astronomers with the University of Tokyo and Niigata University has discovered a possible new class of interstellar object. In their study, published in The Astrophysical Journal ...

"We're trying to encounter an astronomical object that streaks through our solar system just once and we don’t want to miss ...

A mysterious interstellar object, estimated to be eight times the ... Using computer simulations, researchers found that in about 1% of the scenarios, such a close ... Research suggests asteroid ...

Astrophysicists at the University of Colorado's JILA, National Institute of Science and Technology, have conducted an ...

The detection of a large interstellar object in 2017 named 'Oumuamua was ... And tantalizingly, what they found suggests that our solar system may already be flooded with visitors from the star ...

The CMZ is a region of clouds rich in dust and molecular gas that roils around the galactic nucleus. It measures up to 2,000 ...

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Scientists estimate there are ~1 septillion (1 followed by 24 zeros) planets in the observable universe. This figure is based on current research, which constan ...

Credit: Digitized Sky Survey 2 - Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin/Mahdi Zamani Interstellar objects, such as asteroids or comets, are not gravitationally bound to a star. They can come from other ...