23 May 2018
First permanent extrasolar asteroid found near Jupiter
...kilometre ball of rock is the very first object in the Solar System shown to have an extrasolar origin. Late last year, the... 400 metres long) rocky object was hurtling through the Solar System on an interstellar sojourn around the Sun. Named after ...
03 December 2018
OSIRIS-REx officially arrives at Bennu today
... up of material that could have remained unchanged since it clumped together during the first 10 million years of the Solar System's formation. The asteroid may therefore contain the molecular precursors to the origin of life and the Earth...
17 May 2019
First science results released on Ultima Thule
..., Ultima Thule comes from a region known as the Kuiper belt; a broad, ring-shaped structure in the outer Solar System beyond Neptune’s orbit, which contains chunks of primitive icy material thought to be the building blocks of planets. Ultima...
18 September 2019
Researchers calculate feasibility of sending a probe to C/2019 Q4 (Borisov)
...possibly the first confirmed interstellar comet to visit the Solar System – hit the headlines last week, astronomers using ...second such interstellar object to be identified whizzing through the Solar System; the first, 'Oumuamua, was spotted in 2017. ...
13 March 2020
Over 100 new minor planets found in new astronomical survey
...300 minor planets located in the far reaches of the Solar System, including 139 new objects that were not previously published... objects (TNOs). TNOs are any minor planet in the Solar System that orbits the Sun at a greater average distance than ...
20 April 2020
New research shows interstellar visitor 21/Borisov is not your average comet
... it another way, CO is more than three times higher than previously measured for any comet in the inner (<2.5 au) Solar System. Because the comet is so rich in CO, it likely originated in a very cold region probably beyond the CO ice-line in a region...
