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Alien hunting Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb continues to rail against the idea that our newest interstellar is merely a comet.
The scientist has a history of making controversial claims about objects from interstellar space. He is well-known for his bold claim that the first interstellar object found, 1I/ʻOumuamua, was an ...
U-M astronomers are helping study a fast-moving, ancient, and massive comet that formed beyond our galaxy. A group of ...
A new image has revealed the clearest glimpse yet of an interstellar visitor zipping through our solar system. Video above: ...
An interstellar comet spotted by NASA is headed for our solar system, showing up near Earth later this year, but it's another ...
A controversial new paper questions whether the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is a potentially dangerous alien probe, similar ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of a high-speed comet traveling through our solar system. Scientists ...
In the past decade, astronomers have witnessed three interstellar objects (ISOs) passing through the solar system. These ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope got an up-close look at a headline-grabbing object known as 3I/ATLAS that has wandered into Earth's cosmic neighborhood.
Of course, 3I/ATLAS is no ordinary comet. Discovered on July 1, 2025 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System ...
3I/ATLAS first made news in July when scientists confirmed it as the third-ever observed interstellar interloper in our solar system. The space object further attracted the public's fascination again ...
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS.