Earlier this month, astronomers made a fascinating discovery: a mysterious object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, with interstellar origins hurtling through the solar system at extreme speeds. As scientists are racing to get a better understanding of the extremely rare visitor — it's only the third confirmed interstellar object to have ventured into our solar system — some intriguing theories have emerged. One particularly eyebrow-raising possibility beyond it being either a comet or an asteroid, as championed by Harvard astronomer and alien hunter Avi Loeb, is that 3I/ATLAS was sent to us by an intelligent, extraterrestrial civilization. In a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper, Loeb analyzed […]