Elon Musk, the world's richest man and CEO of private space firm SpaceX, has weighed in on the topic of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, and the hypothesis that it may be an alien mothership (spoiler alert: it isn't ). The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

On July 1, 2025, astronomers at the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System spotted an object hurtling through our Solar System at a velocity that would soon take it right back out again. Soon, other telescopes turned towards the object, now known to be a comet, and found that it was indeed on an escape trajectory. The Solar System had its third confirmed interstellar visitor, after 2017's 1I/'Oumuamua and 2019's 2I/Borisov.

It's an interesting object, and one scienti

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