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I/ATLAS was first discovered on July 1, 2025, it has garnered much attention, including speculation, hopes and fears that it ...

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An astrophotograph of the interstellar comet known as 3I/ATLAS highlights its green coma and a wandering blue-tinted ion tail. (Copyright Victor Sabet and Julien De ...

Incredible but true! A Harvard astrophysicist puts forward a startling hypothesis: comet 3I/ATLAS could be an alien spacecraft sent by an advanced civilization.