Radio telescopes have long scanned quiet patches of sky for a lone, artificial-sounding ping, but a growing body of research ...
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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 ...
As this interstellar object approached its closest point to Earth, a massive radio telescope attempted to sniff out a ...
A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...
Advanced aliens could be chatting with each other using light flashes in plain sight, similar to how fireflies communicate, ...
ADVANCED alien civilisations might be talking to each other across the vast reaches of space using a “firefly” technique. That’s according to scientists who reckon spotting ...
It is unclear whether a [3I/ATLAS] would transmit radio signals … such signals would take tens of thousands of years to cross ...
Though this hunt came up empty, the fact that 3I/ATLAS is only the third known object found in the solar system after ...
3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar object to enter our solar system, after 'Oumuamua (discovered in 2017) and 2I/Borisov ...
The observations were carried out by the Breakthrough Listen program as the object neared its closest approach to Earth on ...