Harvard Team Finds Possible Remains of Interstellar Object in Pacific

Harvard astronomer Abraham “Avi” Loeb and his team recovered 50 microscropic metal spheres that may have come from beyond our solar system.
The spheres, totaling 35 milligrams, were found along the path of the first known interstellar meteor, IM1, which fell to Earth in 2014.
Loeb suggests there is a chance IM1 was not a naturally-occurring space rock, but wreckage from an interstellar alien probe.
The team used a giant magnet to collect the spheres from the ocean floor and will analyze them to determine their elemental and isotopic composition.
Loeb's team concluded a two-week search for remains of the interstellar object and found promising material that could shed light on the object's origins.