When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. This composite image shows the red, radio wave signature of the night sky rising over the Murchison Widefield Array, a radio telescope in the Australian outback. | Credit: © MWA Collaboration and Curtin University Searching for extraterrestrial signals in… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. The Allen Telescope Array in Northern California is dedicated to astronomical observations and the simultaneous search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). | Credit: Seth Shostak/SETI Institute The universe must either be teeming with life or host almost no life at… Read More »
Alien life that can communicate interstellar space If its home planet does not have plate tectonics and does not have enough water and land, it may not be able to evolve. Robert Stern of the University of Texas at Dallas and Taras Gerya of ETH Zurich in Switzerland argue that plate tectonics are absolutely necessary… Read More »
This article was first published at: Speech. The publication was contributed to the article by Space.com. Expert Voices: Commentaries and Insights. Michael Garrett Sir Bernard Lovell is Head of Astrophysics and Director of the Jodrell Bank Center for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester. Artificial intelligence (AI) has advanced at an astonishing pace in the… Read More »
To detect potential intelligent life beyond, you must first expand your network using a range of techniques and technologies. Any “fishing expedition” for ET involves a close examination of life in extreme environments here. Soilto help us recognize signatures we might find Anthem or a deep dive into the icy crust of Jupiter’s moon, Europe.… Read More »
This is called xenolinguistics: looking at the science of extraterrestrial linguistics. Biologists, anthropologists, linguists, and other experts who specialize in language and communication have begun to explore what non-human, extraterrestrial language might look like. Possibly such thinking has led to fabricated thoughts. Klingon languagecosmic “Klingon” chatter spoken by one of the alien speciesStar wars.” There… Read More »
The language of humpback whales is as foreign to us as an alien race from another planet. Learning to talk to them could one day help us shape our conversations with intelligent extraterrestrials.Zolla Chen/Shutterstock The language of humpback whales may be as foreign to us as an alien race from another planet. So learning to… Read More »