3I/ATLAS: Is This Interstellar Object Just a Comet?

3I/ATLAS immediately assumed celebrity status the moment it was discovered as it was only the third confirmed interstellar object to appear in the solar system. However, data from astronomers have found this third member of an interstellar trinity to be an anomaly. This is due to some of its properties defying cometary behaviour. The more […]
3I/ATLAS: Alien or Comet?

Oumuamua appeared in 2017, without exhibiting the normal characteristics of a comet. It lacked a coma, dust or tail, looking like a giant cigar-shaped piece of rock floating in space. Borisov came into the scene two years later with all the features of a conventional comet. On 1st, July 2025, the interstellar trinity was completed […]
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, […]