A team of astronomers has discovered the most-distant body ever observed in our Solar System. It is the first known Solar System object that has been detected at a distance that is more than 100 times ...

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 ...

SAN ANGELO, Texas (Concho Valley Homepage) — Angelo State University’s (ASU) Department of Physics and Geosciences explains the new object in our solar system that was announced on July 15 and ...

A bright comet with large dust and gas trails as the comets orbit brings it close to the Sun. Illustration. The much-heralded Vera Rubin Observatory —- due to come online early next year in northern ...

The Sun is orbited by eight planets, at least five dwarf planets, tens of thousands of asteroids, and around three trillion comets and icy bodies. Although not all objects of the solar system are as ...

Folks, it's official: the object that astronomers recently spotted blowing through the outer solar system came from interstellar space. Yesterday, the intriguing stranger was named A11pl3Z. Now, it's ...

These methods allow researchers to differentiate between interstellar objects and regular solar system bodies. The ability to accurately track these rogue objects is essential for understanding their ...