Something is happening right now that has every space agency on edge. The interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS — the third visitor ever confirmed from beyond our solar system — just did something no one thought was possible. It changed course. Not slightly, not subtly — but in a way that breaks every known law of celestial mechanics. For the first time in history, the International Asteroid Warning Network, a United Nations–endorsed global defense coalition, has begun tracking an object from another star system. But why now? Why this one? Because new data suggests that 3I/ATLAS isn’t where it’s supposed to be — not according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, not according to orbital predictions, and not according to the fundamental rules of physics. If this object really altered its trajectory while near the Sun, then what we’re witnessing may not just be an astronomical anomaly. It could be intentional.
