When the interstellar traveler 'Oumuamua sped through our solar system in 2017, it left behind a lot of unanswered questions and a lot of scientific debate. Avi Loeb, an astrophysicist at Harvard, is now looking into a new cosmic mystery that could help us figure out what these strange extrasolar objects are.
His most recent investigation is centred on the comet 3I/ATLAS. This celestial body is doing things that don't fit with what we know about astronomy and are putting our current models of the universe to the test. On July 1, 2025, the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile found this monster that was 20 kilometres wide. This is only the third object found in space.
