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The Atlantic They have noticed something intriguing coming from the direction of Proxima Centauri. Ian Waldie / Alamy Last month, as 2020 drew to a close and we on Earth completed one of our strangest orbits around the sun, news broke that astronomers had picked up a mysterious signal from another star. Astronomers could tell, from the specific properties of the beam of radio waves, that it wasn’t made by an act of nature, such as a cosmic explosion. The signal coming from the star’s direction was produced by technology. The signal, known as BLC1, was intriguing, but when news of its dete...

Radio signal is the best possible evidence for extraterrestrial life The Breakthrough Listen team has been scanning skies for technosignatures – indicators of technology developed by advanced alien civilizations. Prior to their discovery, the team’s effort had been fruitless, as many promising detections turned out to be man-made. But one signal, labeled Breakthrough Listen Candidate 1 (BLC1), stood out among the several radio signals the researchers picked up while examining data taken using the Parkes Observatory in Australia during a 2019 search for stellar flares from Proxima Ce...

Was that a dropped call from extraterrestrial life? A spooky radio signal showed up after a radio telescope was aimed at the next star over from our sun. New York Times Representative image: Reuters Nobody believes it was ET phoning, but radio astronomers admit they do not have an explanation yet for a beam of radio waves that apparently came from the direction of the star Proxima Centauri. “It’s some sort of technological signal. The question is whether it’s Earth technology or technology from somewhere out yonder,” said Sofia Sheikh, a gr...