The strange outer-space object 'Oumuamua flew through our solar system in 2017 and captured our imaginations. Meaning "scout" or "messenger" in Hawaiian, 'Oumuamua was the first known visitor from ...

Scientists spotted a strange object flying through the solar system last year. It looked skinny, like a cigar, and may have been a quarter-mile in length. They named it `Oumuamua, Hawaiian for ...

The answer to this question lies in how gravity acts over large distances, with a bit of interstellar aiming thrown in for flavor. On the surface of planet Earth, the force of gravity is pretty much a ...

'Oumuamua is one fascinating rock. The 400-meter-long (1,300-ft) cigar-shaped object is the first interstellar visitor ever detected passing through our Solar System, and while it was originally ...

It can be tempting to imbue seemingly unexplainable experiences with extraterrestrial explanations, but there are three words you ought to remember whenever looking with wonder into the night sky: ...

`Oumuamua, the first interstellar object discovered in the Solar System, is moving away from the Sun faster than expected. This anomalous behavior was detected by a worldwide astronomical ...

Astronomers recently detected a strange, cigar-shaped object passing through the solar system. Called 'Oumuamua, it appears to be a metal-rich asteroid that comes from another star system. Just in ...

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have identified four potential candidates for the home of 'Oumuamua, the first interstellar object known to visit the solar system. Based on data ...

Sept. 25 (UPI) --The interstellar object 'Oumuamua came from somewhere outside the solar system, but where has remained a mystery. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, however, have ...

March 19 (UPI) --The solar system's first-documented interstellar visitor, 'Oumuamua, likely began its journey in a binary star system, new research suggests. Scientists have previously hypothesized ...

The first-ever visitor to Earth's neighborhood from beyond our solar system, it turns out, looks like a giant reddish stick thrown for some cosmic dog at the park. And just a month after the weird ...

If you’ve been walking around thinking that the mysterious, interstellar space rock that astronomers discovered last year is an asteroid, I have some news for you: It’s probably a comet. There is, of ...