Interstellar Seeds and the Panspermia Debate: The 3I/ATLAS Thought Experiment

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Carl Sagan helped popularize the idea that life could travel between stars in interstellar objects, and Avi Loeb now argues we should test that possibility by intercepting such objects to search for life-bearing material.

Scientist Suggests That 3I/ATLAS May Have Seeded Life as It Careened Through Our Solar System
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Scientist Suggests That 3I/ATLAS May Have Seeded Life as It Careened Through Our Solar System

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb suggests extrasolar life couldve survived in the ice of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS and seed other planets.