Breakthrough Listen Making synthetic technosignatures to aid radio SETI searches In the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), we are fundamentally looking for signals that have never been detected before. That said, in radio SETI, we do make the assumption that intelligent civilizations emit
Breakthrough Listen Radio Observations of Transiting Exoplanet Systems As we attempt to answer the question, “are we alone in the universe?”, there are many places to search. Although life might not necessarily arise in environments similar to Earth, Earth-like exoplanets are
oumuamua Life in Elliptical Galaxies What happens on galactic scales seems far removed from life on Earth. Galactic habitability is the idea that the cosmic environment of a planet can influence — or inhibit — its life. Studies about galactic