On April 29, 2019, an Australian telescope detected a radio signal that appeared to be coming from the closest star to our Solar System, Proxima Centauri. Sofia Sheikh, an astronomy postdoc at the ...

Quick. What's the closest star after the sun? If you said Alpha Centauri you're one-third correct. Alpha is actually a triple system comprised of Rigil Kentaurus (Alpha Centauri A), Toliman (Alpha B) ...

Back in 2019, astronomers detected a signal that appeared to be beamed toward Earth from Proxima Centauri. The latter is the nearest star system to our sun, it is approximately 4.2 light-years away, ...

Some of the most tantalizing hints in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence have not been messy or chaotic, but eerily ...

In one of the most exciting developments in the search for extraterrestrial life, scientists have detected a strange radio transmission emanating from our closest neighboring star, Proxima Centauri.

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Last fall, a colleague of Sofia Sheikh’s posted a message in her group’s Slack channel, where members of the Breakthrough Listen Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) collaboration talk ...

Artist's impression of artificial lights on a hypothetical Earth-like planet in the Proxima Centauri system. Breakthrough Listen's search for technosignatures (signs of technology developed by ...

Alpha Centauri, one of the two "Pointer Stars" that help stargazers find the Southern Cross in the Southern Hemisphere, may have a planet in orbit around it. If it does, the Webb Telescope will find ...

A radio signal nearly 9 billion light-years away from Earth was captured in a new recording, detected by India's Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope. McGill University said in a release that this marked ...

Our nearest neighbor, Alpha Centauri, is 4.37 light-years from Earth, which is super close from a cosmological perspective but achingly far from a human point of view. A new telescope promises to ...