A lot of serious scientists are searching for signs of alien life. Most of them are looking really, really far away—often in other star systems. But Harvard physicist Avi Loeb is looking nearby, in ...

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So, when astronomers at South Africa's MeerKAT radio telescope recently announced that they had detected the first radio emissions from 3I/ATLAS, proponents of Loeb's theory were probably expecting to ...