Scientists in Australia have used a radio antenna to find exoplanets for the first time. These are planets that are outside of our own solar system. Scientists hope to study them to discover whether or not there is life beyond…
In 2019, Breakthrough Listen picked up strange radio waves from Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Sun. The signal, names BLC-1, looks like a technosignature that scientists are on the look out for. These signals are in a very…
The field of astronomy is rapidly changing as technology is able to find out more about our vast universe. Once a fringe science, the hunt for intelligent life has evolved into a very real possibility. SETI is leading the charge.…
Grant recipients at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Harvard College Observatory received money from NASA to search for intelligent life in outer space. Exoplanetary research has increased in the past five years with new discoveries of planets in the…