In the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), we can’t simply point our telescopes out to the cosmos and hope to stumble across an alien …
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Signals from space
Astronomers have spotted what may be the strongest candidate yet for an alien signal. Researchers at the Breakthrough Listen project have found an …
IN 2017, something strange came hurtling through our cosmic neighbourhood. Astronomers only spotted it once it was already on its way out, so they …
THERE comes a point at which any advanced alien civilisation worth its salt has to dismantle a neighbouring planet for spare parts. This isn’t an act …
In 1950, Nobel prizewinning physicist Enrico Fermi posed his famous paradox: if extraterrestrial intelligence exists, why haven’t we found it? Why …
I’M WITNESSING the future of the search for alien life. In a dimly lit office on the 17th floor of MIT’s tallest building, with shades drawn over the …
Alien invasions, four-armed ETs and the cosmic lottery – New Scientist talks to the founder of Project Ozma and the inspiration for the modern search …
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