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

"These objects really could be anywhere in the solar system at any given time ... a study of these alien invaders by the first known interstellar visitors. Breaking space news, the latest ...

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 object ...

Interstellar objects are among the last unexplored classes of solar system objects, holding tantalizing information about ...

This image of the sky around the bright star Alpha Centauri ... How do interstellar objects reach our Solar System? Interstellar objects can reach our Solar System thanks to their speed and the ...

However, the odds of encountering one of these objects within the heart our solar system remain exceedingly low, with only a one-in-a-million chance that an interstellar visitor is located within ...

These objects, believed to have originated from the Alpha Centauri system, were captured by the Sun’s gravity and are now part of our solar system. Unlike fast-moving interstellar visitors ...

“So far humanity has detected two interstellar objects such as Oumuamua and Borisov. But having a fragment of an object that came from another solar system and analyzing it in a laboratory would ...

Interstellar ... solar system to ours—is a great place to start, highlighting how and why it's a prime target. The findings were published March 6 in The Planetary Science Journal. Interstellar ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...