Published: Nov 07, 2025, 01:23 IST | Updated: Nov 07, 2025, 01:23 IST
The most mysterious object in our solar system, the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS, has just done the impossible. It lost its visible tail a key cometary feature only to increase its brightness fivefold, baffling astronomers worldwide. New data suggests the object is exhibiting non-gravitational acceleration, moving faster than predicted, prompting Harvard astrophysicists to suggest it might not be a natural comet at all, but perhaps an alien technological artefact.