The newest visitor from deep space, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, has arrived with a literal pulse that is stirring up talk of alien engineering as much as it is exciting astronomers. As its brightness ...

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 ...

Scientists have found new evidence suggesting that interstellar 3I/ATLAS is not an alien spaceship, as one conspiracy theory claims, but a comet.

A team of astronomers found no radio signals from the comet that would suggest it is an extraterrestrial spaceship. The comet was confirmed in July 2025 as the third known object to enter our solar ...