Mysterious comet 31/ATLAS has just done something which looks like ‘controlled manouevering’, according to the scientist who made headlines claiming it could be an alien spacecraft.

The interstellar space rock was spotted in July, and is expected to pass back out of our solar system and into outer space… Unless there’s someone at the controls who might have other ideas?

Before you start panic buying toilet paper, we should point out that his theories are not widely accepted by other space researchers.

In fact, they’ve been made ‘to the annoyance of a lot of people who actually work on comets’, astrophysicist Dr Mark Norris told Metro.

But they are nevertheless making headlines, because Dr Avi Loeb, a controversial Harvard astrophysicist, has claimed the latest images could show it depl

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