Astronomers behind the most extensive search yet for alien life are investigating an intriguing radio wave emission that appears to have come from the direction of Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the sun. The narrow beam of radio waves was picked up during 30…
In 2017 began the crowdfunding campaign of the first automatic digital telescope on the market: the eVscope. Unistellar, the French startup at the origin of this project raised $2.2 million on Kickstarter and received the support from the SETI institute. Their idea was to design…
The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder located in the outback of Western Australia mapped approximately three million galaxies in just 300 hours, observing 83 % of the sky. The Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey produces a map of the Universe in which distant galaxies are represented…
