"We should put all possibilities on the table that it's a rock, a comet, or something else until we get the evidence, the data that will tell us what it is," Loeb said in an interview with WBZ-TV.

The space rock 3I/ATLAS is only the third confirmed interstellar object discovered by astronomers, following 'Oumuamua and the comet Borisov. While astronomers are still busily collecting data on the new discovery,

A newly discovered object in space was spotted about two weeks ago by a telescope in Chile. It's traveling at 135,000 miles per hour, which is too fast to originate from our solar system.