It’s never aliens … until it is. So let’s talk about ‘oumuamua. To repeat the space time maxim: it’s never aliens … until it is. So let’s talk about ‘oumuamua. PBS Space Time is available to stream on ...

The bizarre movements of the interstellar object 'Oumuamua may have a reasonable explanation that has nothing to do with intelligent aliens, new research finds. The strange interstellar visitor — the ...

If it's a day ending in -y, researchers are probably arguing about the origins of the mysterious interstellar object 'Oumuamua. A newly published study in The Astrophysical Journal Letters has put the ...

In 2017, our solar system received its first interstellar visitor, an unknown object named 'Oumuamua. The massive visitor was believed to be over 300 feet long and baffled scientists. Somehow, the ...

When you wish upon a star (or an asteroid or a comet) you are wishing on plasma, ice, dust, rock, on an object that exists, for real, so far away and moving so fast that no living human will likely ...

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An object from another star system that made a brief appearance in our skies guised as an asteroid turns out to be a tiny interstellar comet. ‘Oumuamua, a name that reflects the Hawaiian meaning for ...

1I/'Oumuamua was a small object that came from interstellar space and passed close to the sun as it traveled through the inner solar system in the autumn of 2017. It was notable because it was the ...

SEATTLE — A cigar-shaped space rock named 'Oumuamua caused quite a stir when it became the first interstellar visitor discovered in our solar system. Is it an asteroid, a comet or an alien spacecraft?

When astronomers first spotted the celestial object now known as ‘Oumuamua skittering across the sky last October after it had dived around the sun, its elongated trajectory and rapid speed quickly ...

Astronomers have cataloged eight planets, 6,500 comets and more than 525,000 asteroids, but Oumuamua is one of a kind. The elongated space object, which was discovered speeding past the sun in 2017, ...