A team of researchers looking to communicate with terrestrial whales as a method of developing techniques that might be used to contact extraterrestrial intelligences managed to hold a twenty-minute conversation with a humpback whale in the waters off of Alaska—a conversation that may open the door to better communication betweenread more
“Gravity waves may not be the communication mode of choice for intelligent beings, but they will eventually give us an entirely new way to study the cosmos…” –Seth Shostak, Astronomer A team of scientists has proposed using existing gravitational wave observatories as a method of detecting nearby extraterrestrial craft thatread more
Harvard University’s Astronomy Department has launched a new SETI initiative called The Galileo Project. But instead of looking to the stars for signs of intelligent life, the project will look for potential extraterrestrial artifacts in our own Solar System—and even in the skies of Earth itself. In 2017 a highlyread more
Astronomers with the Breakthrough Listen project have intercepted a mysterious radio signal that appears to have originated from our Solar System’s closest neighbor, Proxima Centauri. According to the astronomers studying the strange transmission “it is the first serious candidate since the ‘Wow! signal’,” a hypothesized artificial radio signal caught by Bigread more