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Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb calls on NASA to release scientific data on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

Four weeks after its acquisition on October 2–3, 2025, the vital MRO HiRISE data remains inaccessible to researchers.

Why an interstellar comet has scientists excited

The comet could be older than our solar system. The comet is also distinct because nickel vapor was detected in the gas ...

Is it aliens? Why that’s the least important question about interstellar objects

As a joke, she labelled it LGM 1 for “Little Green Men”, but the astronomers working on it did not really believe they had ...
Scientific American

The Race to Study an Interstellar Comet from Deep Space

Astronomers are hustling to use interplanetary spacecraft to study the interstellar comet dubbed 3I/ATLAS while the sun is hiding it from Earth ...

3I/ATLAS can kill most of human life obliterate a continent and is it visible from Earth? Here's what Elon Musk reveals about interstellar comet, how to watch, does it pose a ...

I/ATLAS can kill most of human life obliterate a continent and is it visible from Earth? The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may pose no direct threat to Earth, yet its size, speed, unusual behaviour and ...