A new study on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has proposed the best places to search for a signal from alien intelligences, suggesting it could significantly improve our chances of making such a detection. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

As well as searching for potentially habitable exoplanets , and searching the skies for signs of alien megastructures , scientists looking for alien life have focused on searching for electromagnetic transmissions. These could be intermittent but intentionally directed signals (aliens saying "howdy") or simply leakage of persistent signals .

We are a little short on data on alien civilizations, given that we have found a grand total of zero in our century of

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