India, Aug. 11 -- A comet visiting our solar system from another star is only the third known interstellar object to pass our way. The approach of 3I/Atlas has sparked interest and curiosity in the astro community, but one prominent Harvard physicist has raised the possibility that it is more than a typical comet.

Avi Loeb, the chair of the astronomy department at Harvard, has suggested that the Manhattan-sized interstellar object could be an alien probe on a "reconnaissance mission".

Loeb raised the possibility that the trajectory of the interstellar object - which has been travelling through space for millions, possibly billions, of years - was "designed".

"Maybe the trajectory was designed," the Harvard physicist told Fox News Digit...