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Predictions of the LSST Solar System Yield: Near-Earth Objects, Main Belt Asteroids, Jupiter Trojans, and Trans-Neptunian Objects. The Astronomical Journal (submitted to arXiv), 2025 DOI: 10.3847 ...
The entire system is currently traveling toward us and will reach its closest point to the sun in around 28,000 years. When this happens, the number of objects entering the solar system will ...
A controversial new paper questions whether the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is a potentially dangerous alien probe, similar ...
The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile recently captured rare footage of the visitor known as 3I/ATLAS — only the third interstellar object discovered. What’s more impressive: The observatory ...
Dubbed 'The Goblin,' newly discovered object supports theory of a giant planet on edge of our solar system Nicole Mortillaro · CBC News · Posted: Oct 02, 2018 10:00 AM EDT | Last Updated ...
To test the foreign-object hypothesis, Malhotra and her colleagues used computer models of the four giant planets to perform 50,000 simulations of such flybys, each over 20 million years.
A new observatory is set to detect millions of never-before-seen solar system objects, a global group of astronomers led by Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) has said.
A new interstellar object, A11pl3Z, has been discovered in our solar system, marking the third such object to be observed. It was first discovered zipping near the sun this fall.
At the edge of the solar system, there could be around one million interstellar celestial bodies with a diameter of at least 100 meters orbiting the sun that originally came from Alpha Centauri ...
Jun 04, 2025 Millions of new solar system objects to be found and 'filmed in technicolor' - studies predict A group of astronomers from across the globe have revealed new research showing that ...