American astrophysicist and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson, and English physicist, science communicator, and musician Professor Brian Cox have given the world their thoughts on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, and the unnecessary hypothesis that it could be an alien spacecraft. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

First up, the recap. On July 1, 2025, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) did its job brilliantly (pat pat), detecting an object hurtling through our Solar System on a trajectory that could only mean one thing: the object is interstellar, a visitor born around a distant star.

It was quickly discovered to be a comet, displaying classic cometary behavior. That doesn't mean it isn't intere

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