The European Low Frequency Array of radio telescopes is performing Breakthrough Listen's first-ever search at megahertz radio frequencies. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

A search of more than 1,300 galaxies for extraterrestrial signals has helped to constrain expectations as to how many communicating, technological civilizations may exist beyond Earth. Conducted with ...

Radio telescopes have long scanned quiet patches of sky for a lone, artificial-sounding ping, but a growing body of research is pushing astronomers to look instead at the loudest neighborhoods in the ...

The type of orbit an exoplanet occupies could result in astronomers missing out on possible radio transmissions coming from the planet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Owen Johnson receives funding from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. Is there life beyond Earth? The question has turned out to be one of the hardest to answer in science. Despite the seemingly ...

China reported this week that the most powerful ground-based radio telescope may have identified technological traces of an alien civilization in an electromagnetic signal from space. The Five-hundred ...

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