[astro-ph.IM] Breakthrough Listen (BL), launched in July 2015 with a 10-year, $100M commitment from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, is the most comprehensive search for technosignatures ever conducted.
Allen Telescope Array
![The on-sky geometry of the Anti-Solar Point (ASP), the ecliptic, and the synthesized beams of the ATA-ASP campaign. See the pilot paper by Sheikh and Hort et al. 2026 for full detail [1]. -- [astro-ph.IM]](https://i0.wp.com/astrobiology.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/A-Technosignature.png?resize=1200%2C719&ssl=1)
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A Technosignature Survey Of The Anti-Solar Point: The SETI Institute’s Largest-Ever Campaign With The Allen Telescope Array
[astro-ph.IM] The ATA-ASP campaign is a radio technosignature survey of the Anti-Solar Point as a “Schelling point”, using the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI).
![Geometry of the LTT 3780 planetary system at the time of our radio technosignature observations. The left panel shows the sky-plane (X–Y) view as seen from Earth, while the right panel shows the top-down (X–Z) view of the system. The orbits of planets b (blue) and c (green) are shown relative to the host star (yellow). Our observations from the ATA, mentioned in Table 1 on 5th November 2025, were timed to coincide with a planet–planet occultation (PPO), when planet b passes behind planet c along the line of sight, providing a unique configuration to search for radio technosignatures during mutual planetary alignment.-- [astro-ph.IM]](https://i0.wp.com/astrobiology.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/A-Search-For.png?resize=1200%2C719&ssl=1)
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A Search For Narrowband Technosignatures From LTT 3780 With The Allen Telescope Array And The Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array
[astro-ph.IM] The LTT3780 system hosts two known exoplanets-LTT3780b, a rocky super-Earth, and LTT3780c, a temperate sub-Neptune-orbiting a nearby M dwarf on opposite sides of the radius valley. LTT3780c has been […]
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SETI Institute Looks for Signs of Technology in Interstellar Visitor 3I/ATLAS
Scientists at the SETI Institute searched for technological signals from 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object observed in our Solar System.
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A Search For Radio Technosignatures From Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS With The Allen Telescope Array
In 2025 July, the third-ever interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, was discovered on its ingress into the Solar System. Similar to the NASA Voyager missions sent in 1977, science probes by extraterrestrial […]
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Breakthrough Listen Observations Of Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS
The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS was discovered on July 1, 2025. There is currently no evidence to suggest that it is anything other than a natural astrophysical object. However, given the […]
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Jill Tarter to Receive Inaugural Tarter Award for Innovation in the Search for Life Beyond Earth
Renowned astronomer, Dr. Jill Tarter (@jilltarter ), SETI Institute co-founder and pioneering SETI researcher, will be honored with the inaugural Tarter Award for Innovation in the Search for Life Beyond […]
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Are Nearby TRAPPIST-1 Planets Sending Radio Signals To Each Other?
A new technique allows astronomers to home in on planets beyond our solar system that are in line with each other and with Earth to search for radio signals similar, […]
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Scientists Use Allen Telescope Array to Search for Radio Signals in the TRAPPIST-1 Star System
Scientists at the SETI Institute and partners from Penn State University used the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) to search for signs of alien technology in the TRAPPIST-1 star system. The […]
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A Radio Technosignature Search Of TRAPPIST-1 With The Allen Telescope Array
Planet-planet occultations (PPOs) occur when one exoplanet occults another exoplanet in the same system as seen from the Earth’s vantage point. PPOs may provide a unique opportunity to observe radio […]