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It has been more than sixty years since Dr. Frank Drake (father of the Drake Equation) and his colleagues mounted the first Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) survey. This was known as ...

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In context: Radio waves from distant galaxies are too faint to provide meaningful data for potential space observations. However, a sufficiently advanced alien civilization could harness energy in ...

New research has revealed that the world's largest radio telescope, located in China, could potentially spot self-replicating probes launched by a distant intelligent alien civilization, should they ...

It appears that Tesla’s founder Elon Musk has tweets that hint at a planet-scale power concept that measures a civilization’s technological advancement by considering its energy consumption. Musk has ...

We’ve never encountered aliens. Or alien probes. Nothing at all, in fact. But tiny self-replicating alien space probes could already be in our Solar System. If they were then could humanity’s biggest ...