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 ...

With its wide field of view, the TESS space observatory continuously monitors large swathes of the sky and records the faintest fluctuations in light. Its mission is to discover worlds orbiting ...

Astronomers using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found a distant object in the direction of Alpha Centauri. The object appears to be in the outer region of our ...

A newly discovered interstellar comet is hurtling around us, only the third interloper object to be observed in our solar system. It is not expected to pose an impact risk to Earth, but telescopes ...

In a headline straight out of Hitchhiker’s Guide, astronomers say they’ve confirmed that a mysterious object observed in 2018, dubbed “Farfarout,” is indeed the farthest known object orbiting the Sun.

Scientists say studying objects like Ammonite, despite their immense distance, offers valuable insight into the solar ...

An artist’s conception shows the distant object known as 2018 VG18 or “Farout.” (Carnegie Institution for Science Illustration / Roberto Molar Candanosa) Astronomers say they’ve discovered the most ...

Astronomers have spotted the second object ever known to visit our solar system from another star system. The object is expected to fly near Mars in October. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) ...

The first observed interstellar object blazed through our solar system more than two years ago. Astronomers scrambled to observe the object in October 2017 before it disappeared, and their ...

For the first time in recorded history, scientists have detected an interstellar object in our native solar system. NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) announced on Thursday that an ...