Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.

Astronomers have spotted what they think might be an "interstellar object" hurtling through the solar system — and it's ...

Astronomers on Wednesday confirmed the discovery of an interstellar object racing through our Solar System – only the third ...

Astronomers on Wednesday confirmed the discovery of an interstellar object racing through our Solar System -- only the third ...

In a rare astronomical event, astronomers have confirmed the passage of an interstellar object through our solar system.

The freshly minted telescope discovered 2,000 previously unknown asteroids in just 10 hours. Weirdly, NASA doesn’t seem to ...

The interstellar object has been named 3I/Atlas by the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center.

A new interstellar object has been spotted careening into the solar system at an extremely unusual trajectory.

The new object was officially announced by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center on May 21, 2025, and shared in an arXiv pre-print.

A team of astronomers believe they may have discovered a new dwarf planet—just like Pluto—on the edge of our solar system. The object—which orbits out beyond Neptune—has been named "2017 OF201" by the ...

The Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., officially registered the new space rock Jan. 2, saying it was spotted hurling through the final frontier roughly 150,000 miles from Earth, according to… ...

Elon Musk’s sense of humor is out of this world. Seven years after the SpaceX CEO launched a Tesla Roadster into orbit, astronomers from the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center ...