'Oumuamua is the first known object from an alien solar system detected passing through our own. Pronounced Oo-MU-ah-MU-ah, the name comes from the Hawaiian 'oumuamua, meaning "first distant messenger ...

The rocky, elongated object came to us from beyond the realms of the Sun — the first ever recorded interstellar object to cruise through our neck of the galaxy. We dubbed it 'Oumuamua, which means "A ...

When the first interstellar comet ever seen in our solar system was discovered in 2017, one characteristic -- an unexplained acceleration away from the sun -- sparked wild speculation, including that ...

When the solar system's first-known interstellar visitor was spotted on Oct. 19, 2017, scientists scurried to observe the strange object. The oddly shaped, rapidly moving traveler had been ejected ...

‘Oumuamua, the first known interstellar object to pass through Earth’s solar system, has been called many things: a comet, an asteroid, a cigar-shaped spaceship. Now it has a new description: ...

'Oumuamua is shaped less like a cigar, as was originally proposed, and more like a pancake, according to recent research. Illustration by William Hartmann When astronomers first detected ‘Oumuamua in ...

In October 2017, an asteroid-hunting telescope in Hawaii detected something unusual. A cigar-shaped object about twice the size of the Eiffel Tower was booking it past Earth at nearly 60,000 miles per ...

When the solar system's first-known interstellar visitor was spotted on October 19, 2017, scientists scurried to observe the strange object. The oddly shaped, rapidly moving traveler had been ejected ...

Maybe ‘Oumuamua wasn’t the first visitor from another star system after all. When the mysterious, stadium-size object sped past our sun in 2017 before disappearing from view, scientists believed they ...

In 2017, a mysterious comet dubbed 'Oumuamua fired the imaginations of scientists and the public alike. It was the first known visitor from outside our solar system, it had no bright coma or dust tail ...