New Delhi, Oct. 29 -- Harvard astrophysicist Dr Avi Loeb earlier shared a provocative theory about the interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS. The cosmic visitor from another world will come closest to Earth on October 29.

Dr Loeb suggested, half in jest, that people might consider taking a vacation before that date, as no one could predict what might happen. Dr Loeb speculated that the object could even be a "mothership" releasing small probes towards Earth.

"If you want to take a vacation, take it before that date because who knows what will happen now," Dr Avi Loeb said in an earlier interaction with Dr Mayim Bialik and Jonathan Cohen.

As the head of the Galileo Project, which studies unidentified aerial phenomena, he mentioned that his team's...