An experiment spearheaded by the SETI Institute studies how alien societies might theoretically use Earth's "technosignatures" to locate human life. The project reveals not only the diverse ways ...

The updated document also discusses the ever-more sophisticated search for alien technosignatures using new, powerful telescopes. In 2023, SETI conducted a global simulation of how first contact ...

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It will be essential for us as a species to maintain superiority, but [...] we are not the pinnacle of creation,” he says.

Scientists doing SETI experiments are looking for proof – not merely of life elsewhere – but of intelligent beings in other star systems. Scientists long ago realized that we can’t find aliens by ...

There’s no telling whether aliens use radio signals, after all. “We have one data point—that’s us,” says Charbonneau, who recently published a new book on nascent SETI research during ...

Fossil fuels powered the industrial revolution. Would aliens need a similar power source to jump-start a technical revolution ...

However, SETI senior astronomer Seth Shostak told us that it's too late to consider whether we should send such transmissions, because we've already been doing it for decades. Follow BI Video ...

Astronomers looking for alien signals have examined only a few thousand star systems so far. But as SETI Institute senior astronomer Seth Shostak has noted, the rate at which researchers are able ...

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Radio frequencies have been the favored hunting ground of SETI since the search for alien transmissions began 60 years ago, largely because they travel most efficiently through space. SETI ...

researchers in astronomy and astrobiology explore the concept of technosignatures—evidence pointing to the use of alien technology. The funding will allow SETI to delve deeper into this avenue ...