Oumuamua — a mysterious, interstellar object that crashed through our solar system two years ago — might in fact be alien technology. That's because an alternative, non-alien explanation might be fatally flawed.
| The astrophysicist who argued that interstellar object 'Oumuamua seemed to use alien technology now says a more natural explanation for the object has a fatal flaw. www.livescience.com |
Most scientists, however, think 'Oumuamua's wonky acceleration was likely due to a natural phenomenon. In June, a research team proposed that solid hydrogen was blasting invisibly off the interstellar object's surface and causing it to speed up.