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Topic: ‘Oumuamua

Theoretical Physicist Avi Loeb speaks during the New Space Exploration Initiative "Breakthrough Starshot" Announcement at One World Observatory on April 12, 2016 in New York City. (Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize Foundation)

Proof of aliens on the deep sea floor?

Elizabeth Hlavinka

Oumuamua, interstellar object passing through the Solar System (Getty Images/dottedhippo)

Humdrum comet or alien spacecraft?

Originally classified as an asteroid, Oumuamua is an object estimated to be about 230 by 35 meters (800 ft x 100 ft) in size, travelling through our solar system. (Getty Images/Aunt_Spray)

A new quarrel over an "alien" asteroid

Anti-vaccine activists hold signs and chant in front of the Massachusetts State House against Governor Charlie Baker's mandate that all Massachusetts school students enrolled in child care, pre-school, K-12, and post-secondary institutions must receive the flu vaccine this year on August 30, 2020 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Scott Eisen/Getty Images)

What COVID and aliens have in common

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Extraterrestrial by Avi Loeb (Photo illustration by Salon/Olivia Falcigno/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

The first alien spacecraft?

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Looking for life on BZ509

Artist’s impression of `Oumuamua (ESO/M. Kornmesser)

‘Oumuamua came from a binary: report

Artist’s impression of `Oumuamua (ESO/M. Kornmesser)

Nothing yet in the search for alien life

Ray Norris - The Conversation

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