WASHINGTON – A reddish-colored cigar-shaped interstellar object called ‘Oumuamua that is tumbling through our solar system may be wreckage from a planet ripped apart when it roamed too close … ...

An artist's concept of the 'Oumuamua interstellar object as a pancake-shaped disk. ... All in all, "about 1 in 1,000 comets in our solar system must be objects like 'Oumuamua," Desch said.

Like many heroes, ‘Oumuamua started its epic journey with trauma. The object is classified as an “ejected planetesimal,” which is a fancy way of saying that it’s big and it wanders between ...