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That 'alien' signal might be a dying civilization’s last message
The first unmistakable signal from another intelligence may not be a cheerful greeting. A growing group of researchers is ...
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First alien signal may be a civilization’s final cry
Could the first confirmed signal from an extraterrestrial source be less a hello than a goodbye? Astrophysicist David Kipping argues as much, and his “Eschatian Hypothesis” reimagines the way ...
Technosignatures are theoretical signs of technologically advanced alien civilizations, but so far, none of those civilizations have phoned home. Researchers from the Search for ExtraTerrestrial ...
For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to prepare us for eventual contact with aliens. Their efforts are dominated by several recurrent tropes. There's the invasion by a warlike ...
In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...
Complex, intelligent life in the galaxy appears vanishingly rare, with the nearest possible civilization perhaps 33,000 light-years distant. Yet despite the odds, scientists insist that continuing the ...
In 1950, famed astrophysicist Enrico Fermi posed a profound question during a casual lunch with colleagues: Where is everybody? In other words, if there’s an extremely high probability that advanced ...
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