technosignatures
James Webb Might be Able to Detect Other Civilizations by their Air Pollution
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched last December, has been slowly powering up its instruments and unfurling its sunshield,…
If Aliens Are Out There, We’ll Meet Them in a Few Hundred Million Years
A new study indicates that aliens are probably out there, occupying half of the Universe, and we'll likely meet them…
What are the Best Ways to Search for Technosignatures?
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has long roots in human history. With the advent of modern technologies, scientists were…
We Could Find Extraterrestrial Civilizations by Their Air Pollution
Upcoming telescopes will give us more power to search for biosignatures on all the exoplanets we've found. Much of the…
Weekly Space Hangout: October 21, 2020, Dr. Jill Tarter and the Search for Technosignatures
https://youtu.be/r3-w75rrJkE This week we are excited (and honored) to welcome Dr. Jill Tarter to the Weekly Space Hangout. Best known…
Extraterrestrial Hunters Figure Out a Way to Expand Their Search for Signals by a Factor of 200
Thanks to a new study by SETI researchers, Breakthrough Listen's search for extraterrestrial intelligence has expanded by a factor of…
Breakthrough Listen Releases its one-of-Everything “Exotica” Catalog
Breakthrough Listen, the largest SETI effort ever mounted, just released a list of over 700 objects that could be of…
A New Search for Evidence of Technological Civilizations in the Milky Way
Scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and University of Rochester have come together (with NASA funding) to launch a…
Riding the Wave of a Supernova to Go Interstellar
A new paper by two Harvard professors explores the idea of using supernova as a means of high-speed interstellar travel…
NASA’s Technosignatures Report is Out. Every Way to Find Evidence of an Intelligent Civilization
NASA's final report from their Technosignature Workshop is now out and addresses all the ways in which humanity is looking…