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Existing NASA Spacecraft Could Intercept the Weird Interstellar Object Cruising Into Our Star System

Existing NASA Spacecraft Could Intercept the Weird Interstellar Object Cruising Into Our Star System
science7/30/2025

Earlier this month, astronomers observed a mysterious object with interstellar origins speeding through the inner solar system. It's an exceedingly rare occurrence, marking only the third confirmed interstellar object to have ventured into our solar system. Apart from raising the tantalizing, albeit far-fetched, possibility that the object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, could have been an alien probe sent to us by an intelligent civilization, Harvard astronomer and alien hunter Avi Loeb suggests we could use

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