Most alien-signal searches listen to a narrow part of the radio spectrum, but astronomers are now testing higher frequencies that have barely been explored. A first search using archived ALMA ...

Some of the most tantalizing hints in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence have not been messy or chaotic, but eerily precise. A handful of radio and optical blips have looked so clean, so ...

The US$100m (£70m) Breakthrough Listen Initiative, founded by the billionaire, technology and science investor Yuri Milner and his wife Julia, has identified a mysterious radio signal that seems to ...

For more than 60 years, scientists have been searching the cosmos for possible signs of radio transmission that would indicate the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI). In that time, the ...

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A recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal examines how SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) campaigns could save computing time while improving accuracy of determining if a ...

A strange signal has been detected coming from a nearby star, Proxima Centauri. Nicknamed the “Wow! 2020 signal,” it was detected as part of the Breakthrough Listen project which works on the search ...