Daily Mail News – SCience
By MATTHEW PHELAN SENIOR SCIENCE REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 07:48 EDT, 16 March 2024 | UPDATED: 07:52 EDT, 16 March 2024
A war of words has erupted between scientists at Harvard, Johns Hopkins and elsewhere, over a mystery object some argue came from outside our solar system.
Last June, a research expedition off the coast of Papua New Guinea led by Harvard astrophysicist Dr. Avi Loeb dredged up hundreds of small metal spheres from the Pacific, which he argues came from this object as it melted in midair before impact.
In an op-ed for DailyMail.com last August, Dr. Loeb concluded that ‘the evidence indicates the fragments are of interstellar origin.’