{"id":269360,"date":"2025-11-18T08:51:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T08:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/269360\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T08:51:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T08:51:05","slug":"nasa-to-hold-urgent-briefing-today-as-mysterious-interstellar-object-heads-closer-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/269360\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasa to hold urgent briefing TODAY as mysterious ‘interstellar object’ heads closer to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nasa has called an urgent briefing today to share a series of updates on the mysterious “interstellar object”.<\/p>\n

The so-called “alien visitor”, currently steaming towards our planet after rounding the Sun, has become the centre of a raging debate over its true origins.<\/p>\n

But today, America’s space agency will be hosting a live event at 8pm GMT to share new images of the comet, officially designated 3I\/ATLAS.<\/p>\n

The “probe” is only the third object ever to travel through our solar system from elsewhere in the galaxy.<\/p>\n

And just days ago, astronomers shed further light on 3I\/ATLAS’s makeup.<\/p>\n

David Jewitt and Jane Luu found the visitor’s body was intact having travelled around our star.<\/p>\n

It was surrounded by a glowing coma – a plume of gas that is stretched out in two directions, one pointing toward the sun and another away from it.<\/p>\n

Some claim this adds to Harvard astrophysicist Professor Avi Loeb’s theory that the comet may have alien origins.<\/p>\n

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America’s space agency will be hosting a live event at 8pm GMT to share new images of the comet (pictured)<\/p>\n

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The double-direction gas prompted Prof Loeb to speculate 3I\/ATLAS may actually have “thrusters”.<\/p>\n

“Technological thrusters which point their exhaust towards the sun would accelerate away from the Sun,” the professor said.<\/p>\n

“This post-perihelion manoeuvre might be employed by a spacecraft that aims to gain speed rather than slow down through the gravitational assist from the Sun.”<\/p>\n

His words came just as US Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna revealed how some information about the visitor was being withheld from the public.<\/p>\n

INTERSTELLAR OBJECT UPDATES – READ MORE:<\/p>\n

\"3I\/ATLAS\"\/<\/p>\n

The visitor is only the third object ever to travel through our solar system from elsewhere in the galaxy<\/p>\n

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NASA\/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS<\/p>\n

Ms Luna said she had been denied access to US Government records about the object and claimed members of the US intelligence community blocking the truth behind 3I\/ATLAS.<\/p>\n

“I do believe it’s a passing through comet, and so I don’t think we are going to have any contact with any non-human intelligence yet, but the ruling is still out there on what this is,” she told NewsMax.<\/p>\n

Nasa insists that 3I\/ATLAS poses no threat to Earth and will stay at a safe distance.<\/p>\n

The comet’s closest approach to our planet will see it pass us some 170 million miles away.<\/p>\n

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PICTURED: The first known image of 3I\/ATLAS, taken in summer 2025<\/p>\n

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Nasa’s Acting Administrator Sean Duffy was recently forced to clarify the comet contained “no aliens” and “no threat to life here on Earth”.<\/p>\n

While David Jewitt, who saw it return from its solar trip a few days ago, told The New York Times: “The whole subject is contaminated by this assertion that it might be a spacecraft… I think in people’s minds, you know, yeah, it’s a spacecraft.”<\/p>\n

Everything seen by telescopes on the ground and in space “fits what we see in other comets”, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nasa has called an urgent briefing today to share a series of updates on the mysterious “interstellar object”.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-269360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}