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Could the latest ‘interstellar comet’ be an alien probe? Why spotting cosmic visitors is harder than you think
Comet 3I/ATLAS. International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/K. Meech/Jen Miller/Mahdi Zamani, CC BY Sara Webb, Swinburne University of Technology On July…
Mysterious objects from other stars are passing through our solar system. Scientists are planning missions to study them up close
NASA/ESA/STScI Billy Bryan, RAND Europe; Chris Carter, RAND Europe, and Theodora Ogden, RAND Europe In late 2017, a…