Oumuamua was discovered in 2017 and was the first confirmed interstellar visitor. It exhibited an elongated shape and unusual ...

The elongated shape of the orbit takes the asteroid around the sun and into Earth's vicinity before it ventures far out between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Because of the unusual orbit ...

Data suggests that the asteroid has an elongated shape, while measurements at visible wavelengths suggest it may be stony in composition, according to the Planetary Society. Asteroids orbit ...

"The elongated shape of Sputnik Planitia strongly suggests that the impact was not a direct head-on collision but rather an oblique one," co-author Martin Jutzi, a researcher at the University of ...