Editor’s note: One way to search for habitable – and possibly inhabited – worlds in our solar system and in other star systems is to examine planetary atmospheres for chemical […]
Technosignatures
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Black Holes As Tools For Quantum Computing By Advanced Extraterrestrial Civilizations
We explain that black holes are the most efficient capacitors of quantum information. It is thereby expected that all sufficiently advanced civilizations ultimately employ black holes in their quantum computers.
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A Deep-learning Search For Technosignatures Of 820 Nearby Stars
The goal of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is to quantify the prevalence of technological life beyond Earth via their “technosignatures”. One theorized technosignature is narrowband Doppler drifting radio […]
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Will Machine Learning Help Us Find Extraterrestrial Life?
When pondering the probability of discovering technologically advanced extraterrestrial life, the question that often arises is, “if they’re out there, why haven’t we found them yet?”
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Artificial Intelligence Joins Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Breakthrough Listen – the initiative to find “technosignatures”, or signs of intelligent life in the universe – announced today the results from a new method of searching data driven by […]
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Inferring The Rate Of Technosignatures From Sixty Years Of Nondetection
For about the last 60 years the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been monitoring the sky for evidence of remotely detectable technological life beyond Earth, with no positive results to […]
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The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: A Laser Search Pipeline for the Automated Planet Finder
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has traditionally been conducted at radio wavelengths, but optical searches are well-motivated and increasingly feasible due to the growing availability of high-resolution spectroscopy.
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A Green Bank Telescope Search For Narrowband Technosignatures Between 1.1-1.9 GHz During 12 Kepler Planetary Transits
A growing avenue for determining the prevalence of life beyond Earth is to search for “technosignatures” from extraterrestrial intelligences/agents.
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Extraterrestrial Signal Search is Underway Using the Southern Hemisphere’s Biggest Radio Telescope
Breakthrough Listen – the initiative to find signs of intelligent life in the universe – announced today, at a conference organized by the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO), the […]
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A Search For Radio Technosignatures At The Solar Gravitational Lens Targeting Alpha Centauri
Stars provide an enormous gain for interstellar communications at their gravitational focus, perhaps as part of an interstellar network. If the Sun is part of such a network, there should […]