technosignatures

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…

3 years ago

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…

3 years ago

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…

4 years ago

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…

4 years ago

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…

4 years ago

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…

4 years ago

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…

5 years ago

Technosignatures are NASA’s New Target for Detecting Other Civilizations in Space. Wait. What’s a Technosignature?

A NASA workshop on Technosignatures paves the way for a new approach to the search for intelligent life.

6 years ago

Researchers Just Scanned 14 Worlds From the Kepler Mission for “Technosignatures”, Evidence of Advanced Civilizations

In the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), a team of astronomers recently searched through the Kepler field to look for…

6 years ago