India's space telescope AstroSat may have captured images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS days before NASA's official announcement, a claim now stirring global debate over data-sharing and scientific credit.
Researchers involved in AstroSat's monitoring mission say the satellite captured early signs of a fast-moving, unidentified object in late June, days before the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in Chile confirmed the discovery on 1 July, as reported by NASA's Planetary Defence Coordination Office.
