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

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 ...

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 ...

A NASA mission, IMAP, will investigate and map the sun's particles and energy across the entire heliosphere, using a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Euclid has two instruments: its visible light camera, VIS, and its near-infrared light camera, NISP. NISP allows Euclid to ...

A study proposes that Alpha Centauri could be contributing a significant number of asteroids to the solar system ... Scientists believe interstellar objects colliding with neutron stars could ...