Archive · 18 Jul 2025
Harvard Astronomer Suggests Interstellar Object Could Be Alien Tech
Scientists have found a space object called 3I/ATLAS that came from outside our solar system.
One scientist, Avi Loeb, thinks it might be alien technology, maybe even sent by a hostile alien group!
He says it's bigger than other space rocks we've seen before.
We'll need more data to know for sure if it's a rock or something else.
It will pass close to the sun and Earth, but it won't hurt us.
Scientists believe it possibly came from the edge of our galaxy.
Astronomers spotted 3I/ATLAS, a small comet, entering our solar system.
Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb suggests it might be alien technology.
Loeb co-authored a paper proposing 3I/ATLAS could be sent by a hostile extraterrestrial civilization.
3I/ATLAS is possibly 20km long, bigger than previously spotted interstellar objects.
Observations suggest 3I/ATLAS originated from the Milky Way's outer disk.
- Who
- Astronomers, including Avi Loeb, are studying it.
- What
- 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object.
- When
- Discovered recently.
- Where
- Currently passing through our solar system.
- Why
- To determine its origin and nature - whether natural or artificial.
Avi Loeb's View
Alternative View
Origin
Avi Loeb's View
3I/ATLAS could be artificial in origin, possibly from a hostile extraterrestrial civilization.
Alternative View
3I/ATLAS is most likely a natural interstellar object.
- Object Name
- 3I/ATLAS
- Discovery
- By NASA's ATLAS telescope
- Potential Origin
- Outside our solar system
- Size Estimate
- Potentially 20km long
- Astronomer Proponent
- Avi Loeb
- Closest Approach to Sun
- 210 million km