SETI Researchers Double-Checked 1 Million Objects for Signs of Alien Signals

SETI is developing a new way to search for technosignatures and the first results are in. Sadly, no alien signals were detected. Image Credit: SETI

We can’t help ourselves but wonder about life elsewhere in the Universe. Any hint of a biosignature or even a faint, technosignature-like event wrests our attention away from our tumultuous daily affairs. In 1984, our wistful quest took concrete form as SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.

Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, SETI has turned up nothing. Recently, scientists used a powerful new data system to re-examine data from one million cosmic objects and still came up empty-handed. Did they learn anything from this attempt?

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