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Captured in photos: Second interstellar object ever observed in our solar system

The image shows details about C/2019 Q4 — a fuzzy coma and tail, both of which are features not seen in 'Oumuamua.

Japanese Hayabusa mission to collect samples found water on the asteroid Itokawa

Scientists have found water content in the parent body after analysing the collected samples from Hayabusa

Moon's surface is pretty cracked up, getting worse with time and meteor impacts

The Moon is far less dense & has way more deep fissures than scientists thought it did.

JAXA's 'pile of rubble' asteroid target may hold clues to source of Earth's water

Ryugu's parent rock may have had way more water in the beginning & lost much of it to space.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission finds asteroid Bennu spinning faster and faster over time

Asteroid Bennu's rotation period is getting shorter by roughly one second every 100 years.

Interstellar visitor Oumuamua could be an alien messenger, Harvard scientists admit

The possibility that Oumuamua could be a light-sail produced by aliens exists: Researchers.

Oumuamua leaves the solar system and its scientists with more questions than answers

'Oumuamua brought to light that space rocks are likely a spectrum rather than a binary: Researchers.