Its force of gravity is not strong enough to pull in all the many other objects ... Neptune called the Kuiper Belt. The solar system also contains small objects called comets.

These solar system objects are like icy asteroids and have ... which originated closer to the giant planets, are all part of the spectral group characterized by water ice and silicates." ...

When 'Oumuamua traversed our solar system in 2017 it was the first confirmed Interstellar Object (ISO) to do so. Then in 2019, Comet 2l/Borisov did the same thing. These are the only two confirmed ...

a new theory now suggests that the cause could be a 2-50 Jupiter-mass object passing through the Solar System. To start with, the planets formed out of a rotating disk of gas and dust around the ...

It was the first observed object in our solar system that originated outside of ... “However, these are all hypotheses, and while they’re consistent with all of our data, more work is needed ...

In the distant space out beyond the orbit of Jupiter lurks a strange object. Its name is Chiron, a type of outer Solar System ...

A massive interstellar object passing through our solar system during its formative years likely altered the orbits of planets into trajectories observed today, a new study says. Interactions with ...