There are also many in a region beyond Neptune called the Kuiper Belt. The solar system also contains small objects called comets. Comets are similar to asteroids, but are made of ice, dust and ...

More than 1 million "interstellar objects" the size of the Statue of Liberty could be drifting unseen in the outer solar ...

The solar system is made up of the Sun (our nearest star) and the objects that orbit around it, including planets, asteroids and comets. Planets orbit the Sun in roughly circular paths ...

The detection of a large interstellar objects in 2017 named 'Oumuamua was a remarkable discovery. Figuring out where the ...

A study suggests over 1 million interstellar objects are hiding in the Oort Cloud, possibly from Alpha Centauri.

NASA artist’s conception of a brown dwarf (main) and stock image of the planets in the solar system (inset). An object between 2 and 50 times the mass of Jupiter may have flown through our ...

But our own Solar System's disc is relatively warped, with the orbits of its planets slightly tilted and more oval than circular. What happened to it? It's possible a heavy object fell into the ...

with more reflective objects experiencing greater force. Though small, radiation pressure can shape comet tails and gradually alter the orbits of small bodies in the solar system. More information ...

And tantalizingly, what they found suggests that our solar system may already be flooded with visitors from the star system, which is about 4.25 light years away. These objects range from ...