A New Direct Method to Search for Life Near Other StarsThe top priority of the U.S. astronomy community for the coming two decades was defined in the 2020 Decadal Survey as the Habitable Worlds…23h agoA response icon423h agoA response icon4
How to Distinguish Extraterrestrial Spacecraft from Interstellar Rocks?The discovery of interstellar objects over the past decade raises an important question that could shape the future of humanity: how to…1d agoA response icon101d agoA response icon10
Preliminary Anomalies of 3I/ATLASOn July 1, 2025, a new interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, was spotted at a distance 4.5 times the Earth-Sun separation. At that distance, I…3d agoA response icon133d agoA response icon13
Scientific Paradigm Resistance: Evidence from the ‘Oumuamua Debate and Cross-Disciplinary Casesby Omer Eldadi (1), Gershon Tenenbaum (1) and Avi Loeb (2)6d agoA response icon186d agoA response icon18
Origin and Age of Three Interstellar Objects: 1I/`Oumuamua, 2I/Borisov, and 3I/ATLASFor the first time in human history, three objects from outside the solar system: 1I/‘Oumuamua, 2I/Borisov and 3I/ATLAS, were discovered in…6d agoA response icon86d agoA response icon8
Is 3I/ATLAS a Comet or Something Else?The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS was discovered on July 1, 2025 to be moving at a speed of about 60 kilometers per second towards the inner…Jul 8A response icon8Jul 8A response icon8
Rendezvous with 3I/ATLASThe interstellar object 3I/ATLAS was discovered on July 1, 2025 to be moving at a speed of about 60 kilometers per second relative to the…Jul 7A response icon7Jul 7A response icon7
The New Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS is Smaller or Rarer Than it LooksThe interstellar object 3I/ATLAS was discovered on July 1, 2025 with an orbital eccentricity of 6.2, a distance of closest approach to the…Jul 4A response icon11Jul 4A response icon11
Welcoming a New Interstellar Object: A11pI3Z or 3I/ATLASOn the early morning of July 2, 2025, I woke up at 2AM for a two-hour interview on Coast to Coast radio to discuss my research on…Jul 2A response icon13Jul 2A response icon13
Three Shovels for Interstellar ArchaeologyThe new NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory in Chile is the most effective discovery machine ever built for interstellar objects. Over the past year…Jul 1A response icon2Jul 1A response icon2