A comet that is likely much, much older than our solar system has spent months traipsing through Earth's cosmic neighborhood. And at long last, NASA has unveiled an unprecedented look at the object, ...
Ever since astronomers first detected interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in July, speculation about its true nature has run wild. Some experts speculate it isn’t a comet at all but rather an extraterrestrial ...
So, when astronomers at South Africa's MeerKAT radio telescope recently announced that they had detected the first radio emissions from 3I/ATLAS, proponents of Loeb's theory were probably expecting to ...
Is 3I/Atlas an interstellar alien vessel or simply an intriguing, unique rock hurling through the cosmos? That debate has been raging ever since the comet, only the third known interstellar object to ...
Now, the new film Predator: Badlands is getting attention for its prominent use of Weyland-Yutani, the organization that has been a major part of the Alien franchise ...
A Harvard University professor has said 3I/ATLAS, a comet shrouded in controversy, experienced a sudden "nongravitational" acceleration while passing around the sun, which he believes adds to other ...
Everyone loves a good alien invasion story, preferably one with city-sized ships and physics-defying tech. There's just one big problem with that. The Milky Way is estimated to contain 100 to 400 ...
A comet called 3I/ATLAS is making its closest approach to the sun today (Wednesday October 29)—but is it really an alien spacecraft as one prominent scientist has speculated? If 3I/ATLAS was a ...
Assuming our solar system’s newest interstellar object isn’t an alien mothership sent here to menace us, humankind still hasn’t spotted any signs of extraterrestrial life, let alone intelligence — ...