Since its discovery, 3I/ATLAS has been a topic of wide interest, with some speculating about its origins. However, recent research confirms it is a natural object, not an extraterrestrial spacecraft.
Tom Statler, NASA's lead scientist for Solar System small bodies, has been clear on this point. 'It looks like a comet. It does comet things. It very, very strongly resembles, in just about every way, the comets that we know,' he told The Guardian.
