An obscure, bright object in space is fast approaching us. NASA has been keeping an eye on it with multiple telescopes and says the object is coming from another planetary system.

It's the third of its kind discovered in the last decade. But one Harvard University scientist isn't ruling out the possibility that it could be an alien spacecraft.

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Abraham "Avi" Loeb , director of Harvard's Insitutue for Theory and Computation, says there is something unique about this glowing object, and for now, he says it could be either or.

Recent model images by NASA show what's known as 3I/ATLAS. The agency says this interstellar object is plunging toward our sun at 130,000 miles per hour. That makes it the fastest interstellar

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