Abraham Loeb has theorized that the recently discovered interstellar object 3I/ATLAS could be alien technology, but ASU's Planetarium Director Kenneth Carrell believes it is more likely to be a small rocky object that was flung out of another star system.

The space rock 3I/ATLAS is only the third confirmed interstellar object discovered by astronomers, following 'Oumuamua and the comet Borisov. While astronomers are still busily collecting data on the new discovery,