Unidentified object 'from another solar system' studied for alien life

Australian scientists have helped unlock the secrets of a mysterious flying object spotted in our skies that entered from another solar system.

It is the first time a unidentified flying object has been able to be studied like this to determine whether it could be carrying alien life.

The object was 35 metres wide and 200 metres long, and it is the very first interstellar object known to have entered our solar system.

Travelling on a trajectory that would bring it close to the sun, it was spotted by a telescope in Hawaii late last year.

But scientists, from Curtin University in Perth, have helped unravel its secrets using the Murchison Widefield Array Telescope in outback Western Australia.

The telescope's almost 500 antennas were trained on the object to listen for radio waves, the theory being that if it was a spaceship, it might be transmitting.

But the object was not a spaceship, it was just a rock but with very strange geometry that has been described as "cigar-shaped".

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The object shot through our solar system at 95,000 kilometres-an-hour, fast enough to travel the distance between Perth and Mandurah in less than two seconds.

But exactly where it came from - and where it's heading next - remains a mystery.

For those who believe in the existence of sentient extraterrestrial life, the truth, it seems, is still out there.