Is Comet 31/Atlas Alien Tech?
Carl Sagan famously said, “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.” But he never said we couldn’t discuss extraordinary claims without extraordinary proof. In that spirit, we review a new draft paper by Avi Loeb and colleagues, which asks whether interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS might be a spaceship. Avi Loeb is a Harvard astronomy professor who became a […]
Interstellar Object Comet 3I/ATLAS Detected
Using the Gemini North telescope in Hawai‘i, a team of astronomers led by Karen Meech (Institute for Astronomy/University of Hawai‘i) has captured an image of comet 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object that was first detected on 1 July 2025 by ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System). Gemini North is one half of the International Gemini Observatory, […]