June 2018
Cosmic communications and the anthropology of outer space
... not just messages to Others, but repositories for their human makers’ sensibilities. David MacMahon, chief engineer of Breakthrough Listen, on the Green Bank Telescope. Probing what physicist-turned-astrobiologist Paul Davies has called the “eerie...
15 October 2018
SETI partners with MeerKAT to search for alien life
...world of telescope power on our own planet to locate it, and that is just what SETI plans to do, as the organisation’s Breakthrough Listen initiative announces the start of a major new programme with the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa to boost its...
26 June 2020
Giant ‘Exotica’ catalogue boosts search for alien life
... to host planets with the potential for liquid water on their surfaces. “The expanded search capabilities that Breakthrough Listen has made possible allow us to consider a much wider range of possible technology-laden environments.” The new object...
August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
...the next few years, and this will be the primary objective of the MeerKAT/SKA Breakthrough Listen programme. Breakthrough Starshot The Breakthrough Initiatives are a suite of scientific space exploration programmes in search of the origin, extent and...
07 September 2020
A new study helps narrow the search for intelligent life
..., says Garrett and colleagues. Although the prospect of finding intelligent life close to home is looking bleak, the Breakthrough Listen Initiative has plans to survey up to one million nearby stars in its quest to find radio signals from advanced...
14 September 2018
AI helps find new pulses from mysterious FRB source
A machine learning algorithm is helping researchers at Breakthrough Listen – a SETI initiative to find signs of intelligent life in the Universe – to learn more about a strange, repeating Fast Radio ...
