Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed interstellar object ever detected passing through our solar system, was caught shedding ...

Astronomers have long debated why so many icy objects in the outer solar system look like snowmen. Michigan State University ...

A mysterious object traveling through our solar system may have emitted a signal, according to a scientist. This enigmatic entity, potentially originating from beyond our solar system, has sparked ...

Researchers simulated how gravitational collapse forms two-lobed contact binaries in the Kuiper Belt without destructive ...

An "interstellar object" is speeding toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, astronomers have confirmed. The object -- likely a comet -- was first detected in data collected between by ...

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Carnegie’s Scott Sheppard and his colleagues — Northern Arizona University’s Chad Trujillo, and the University of Hawaii’s David Tholen — are once again redefining our solar system’s edge. They ...

486958 Arrokoth in the Kuiper Belt, previously called 2014 MU69 and nicknamed "Ultima Thule" was the farthest object in the solar system visited by a spacecraft when NASA's New Horizons conducted a ...

The Solar system is bigger than NASA thought. There are a lot of huge objects at the edge of the solar system that we have not seen but can indirectly estimate. When astronomers say Kuiper Belt Object ...

New telescopes will give breathtaking insight into what, or who, is visiting Earth's neighborhood. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A newly discovered object speeding through our solar system is sparking excitement among astronomers because it’s not from around ...