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Loeb believes the fear of economic and social instability is one reason governments downplay the possibility of extraterrestrial technology. “If the public were told we’re being watched,” he said, “the global economy could collapse overnight, not because of aliens, but because of panic.” Source link

Press enter or click to view image in full size Mercury transiting the Sun in 2006, as imaged by the Hinode spacecraft. (Image credit: JAXA/NASA/PPARC) On October 29, 2025, the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS will get to the closest distance of 203 million kilometers from the Sun, completing half of its journey through the Solar System. This would constitute half of …

The Venus exploration spacecraft Zond 1, launched by the Soviet Union on April 2, 1964. (Image credit: Wikimedia) Is it possible that over the past 4.5 billion years of the Earth’s history, alien civilizations visited the solar System and installed monitors in the “baby room” of its habitable zone to follow the evolution of terrestrial life? Such monitors could have …

Press enter or click to view image in full size Alex Malycke’s car at the NASCAR race in Bakersfield, California on October 25, 2025. (Image credit: Loeb’s photo collection) On October 25, 2025, I attended the NASCAR car race in Bakersfield, California. The racers were all ecstatic about the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS because of its high speed of 68 kilometers …

Press enter or click to view image in full size (Credit: Omer Eldadi) An editorial notice by the Minor Planet Center (accessible here) announced that the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, has just been targeted in a new campaign initiated by a United Nations-endorsed group focused on the defense of Earth against space objects. The International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) is a …

Press enter or click to view image in full size New images from the Nordic Optical Telescope, in the Canary Islands, Spain. The evolution of the glow around 3I/ATLAS shows a transition from an anti-tail towards the Sun to a tail away from the Sun. The brightest pixel is marked by a red dot. Sunward is West and distance from …

Press enter or click to view image in full size (Credit: NASA/JPL) On October 21, 2025, the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS will be exactly on the opposite side of the Sun relative to Earth, constituting a so-called `solar-conjunction’. When you look up towards the sky that day, keep in mind that 3I/ATLAS is hiding behind the Sun. Under these circumstances, it …

Press enter or click to view image in full size An image of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS from the Two-meter Twin Telescope in the Canary Islands, Spain. The image, composed of 159 exposures of 50 seconds each, was taken on August 2, 2025. It shows a faint jet pointed towards the Sun (marked by a purple line), extending out to …

Press enter or click to view image in full size An image of 3I/ATLAS on August 24, 2025, taken by the Keck Cosmic Web Imager (KCWI) on the Keck II telescope in Hawaii at the wavelength range of 0.3425 to 0.55 micrometers. The yellow arrow points in the direction of the Sun. (Credit: W. B. Hoogendam et al. 2025) A …

Press enter or click to view image in full size The men’s 100-meter dash final at the London 2012 Olympic Games. (Credit: Wikimedia) As the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS passes through our cosmic backyard, bounded by the orbits of Mars and Earth around the Sun during the month of October 2025, the time is ripe to evaluate its gravity. A good …