In 2017, astronomers discovered the interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua. In 2023, we reported the discovery of seven solar system ...

Yet, a breakthrough discovery has turned this study on its head. An interstellar object, unlike any typical asteroid or comet that we’re accustomed to observing, passed through the solar system ...

Artist’s depiction of interstellar comet Oumuamua (Nasa/Esa) The massive object flew through the solar system at a velocity of about 6km per second, coming within 20 astronomical units of the sun and ...

Instead, 2003 RM was moving more like a comet. The sun causes material such ... briefly observed ‘Oumuamua with telescopes before the interstellar visitor completed its quick pass through ...

In 2017, NASA discovered and later confirmed the first interstellar object to enter ... with gas escaping from its surface. This "dark comet" has had astronomers scratching their heads ever ...

For a regular comet, this other force is the thrust produced ... space We've seen this mysterious motion before. In 2017, the interstellar object 1I/'Oumuamua sped through the inner solar system ...

On October 19th, 2017, the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System-1 (Pan-STARRS-1) in Hawaii announced the ...

It looks at how streams of interstellar bodies might escape a solar system and how they would then move through the Milky Way. While it is always possible for a random asteroid or comet to have a ...

Artist’s depiction of interstellar comet Oumuamua (Nasa/Esa) The massive object flew through the solar system at a velocity of about 6km per second, coming within 20 astronomical units of the ...