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Oumuamua's odd speed-up: NASA has one theory, UFOlogists, another.
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Is it still possible to send a space probe to catch up with Oumuamua? (science video).

 What exactly was the enigmatic interplanetary object we call ‘Oumuamua’? Was it a totally new kind of asteroid or

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Oumuamua's odd speed-up: NASA has one theory, UFOlogists, another.
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What happened to SpaceX’s potential Oumuamua mission in collaboration with Nasa? (science video)

So, let’s find out whether SpaceX and NASA have any plans to address the mystery of Oumuamua.

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Oumuamua: an ancient alien solar sail sat? (video).

In this 40-minute-long video, we examine how iIn late 2017, scientists at a Hawaiian observatory glimpsed an object soaring through

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Oumuamua: new theory, but extraterrestrial lightsail is still the most likely explanation (video).

Some scientists are now trying to explain away the Oumuamua interstellar visitor as a frozen slice of a Neptune-like planet,

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Oumuamua: Avi Loeb says it may have been an alien solar-sail visitor (audio).

In this hour-long audio interview with the Planetary Society, Avi Loeb, the Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at

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Oumuamua: first alien solar-sail probe to visit the Solar System? (science video)

Avi Loeb, the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science and astrophysicist at Harvard University, explains why in his new

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Avi Loeb, Harvard Professor of Astrophysics, on why the Oumuamua visitor was an alien light-sail craft (video).

Avi Loeb, Harvard Professor of Astrophysics, on why the Oumuamua visitor was more likely than not to have been a

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Interstellar object Oumuamua might be alien probe, now solid hydrogen concept disproved (science news).

In 2018, the solar system experienced a visiting object flying by from interstellar space. The object, dubbed ‘Oumuamua, seemed to

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Was ‘Oumuamua’ a light sail probe visiting the Solar System? Dr. Avi Loeb chats.

Dr. Avi Loeb of Harvard University (as well as the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) does a little video about

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Oumuamua's odd speed-up: NASA has one theory, UFOlogists, another.
ScienceWorld getting weirder

Oumuamua’s odd speed-up: NASA has one theory, UFOlogists, another.

Using observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based observatories, an international team of scientists have confirmed Oumuamua, the first

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