#technosignatures — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #technosignatures, aggregated by home.social.
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A Calibrated Bayesian Search for Potential Chemical Technosignatures in Polluted White Dwarfs: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae742c -> Seeking #Technosignatures in Polluted White Dwarfs: https://aasnova.org/2026/07/15/seeking-technosignatures-in-polluted-white-dwarfs/
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Have we been looking for alien civilizations the wrong way?
Join Dr. Lauren Sgro and UCLA astronomer Dr. Ben Zuckerman as they discuss a new SETI strategy that could change how we search for extraterrestrial technology—and what existing observations already tell us about nearby civilizations. https://youtube.com/live/B375iCf7F3A
📅 July 16
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Micron-Scale #Technosignatures - How a Cubic Metre of Lunar Regolith May Begin to Constrain the Number of Past Technological Civilisations in the Galaxy: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.24028 -> "Building on Arkhipov's proposal that technogenic artefacts may survive natural interstellar transport and accumulate on airless Solar System bodies, we examine the prospects for identifying micron-scale engineered particulate material within the lunar regolith. We analyse the transport of micron and submicron grains through the interstellar medium, including gas drag, sputtering, and ISM phase-dependent survival, and show that refractory particles with characteristic radii of order 0.3 microns may traverse kiloparsec scales over residence times of 0.1-1 Gyr."
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Professor Andjelka B. Kovačević’s video presentation for the IAU Symposium 404 is now online - “Multiscale Coherence for Astrobiology and Technosignatures with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST” (Kovačević, Mason, Ciprijanović et al.).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C23gezrXAWk #LSST #VeraRubin #Observatory #technosignatures #Astronomy #AndjelkaKovacevic
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#KnowledgeBit: #Technosignatures are measurable scientific evidence of past or present technology created by extraterrestrial intelligence, acting as potential indicators of advanced alien civilizations.
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From explaining unusual features on #Mars and studying #meteor airbursts in Earth’s atmosphere to advancing new ways of detecting #technosignatures, March’s stories reflect how scientists are continually refining our understanding of both nearby and distant worlds.
Read all the stories: https://www.seti.org/news/seti-institute-in-the-news-march-roundup-2026/
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The 10–100 GeV band along 1I/‘Oumuamua’s 2017 track remains unsearched.
This proposal identifies it as a potential high‑value region for data mining. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18395524 #Oumuamua #Neutrinos #Astrophysics #IceCube #Technosignatures @Astrodon @astrodynamics -
From Andreas - “Although the likelihood of discovering simple (biosignatures) or intelligent (technosignatures) life in our galaxy is unknown, a true positive detection is expected to significantly impact society through amplification by social media & the news media.
Research in risk & science communication shows that risk perceptions and public representations of astrobiology/SETI play vital roles in how these events unfold in the public sphere.
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What happens after we discover life beyond Earth?
Today Martin Dominik is speaking with the SETI Institute’s Franck Marchis about our paper on post-detection futures.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cULB0k2Cb7s
Live in 3 hours 30 mins#SETI #PostDetection #astronomy #astrobiology #technosignatures #space #science
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Wow@Home: Bringing a radio telescope to your home is now as easy and fun as setting up satellite TV — and it’s even more affordable! #RadioAstronomy #Astrophysics #RFI #Technosignatures #SETI #AreciboWow #WowSignal https://phl.upr.edu/wow/outreach
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“The idea of searching for resulting ‘ #technosignatures’ as remotely detectable evidence of #extraterrestrial #technology follows the same logic as exoplanet #biosignature #science” aeon.co/essays/why-w...
Why we’re searching for alien ... -
3️⃣ Listening to the Galactic Center
A new study scanned the Galactic Center at 150 MHz for alien signals—but once again, silence. If life is out there, why aren’t they talking? Or are we just listening on the wrong frequencies?
📖 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/87A3B3FC3B2E271407B7733E155EBF90/S1323358022000054a.pdf
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3-Feb-2025
Could a twin Earth detect #Earth?Researchers used a theoretical, modeling-based method, and this study is the first to analyze multiple types of #technosignatures together rather than separately. The findings revealed that radio signals, such as planetary radar emissions from the former Arecibo Observatory, are Earth’s most detectable technosignatures, potentially visible from up to 12,000 light-years away.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1072482
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1420 MHz is the best frequency to spam alien astronomers. 😄 #seti #technosignatures #wowsignal #arecibowow
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Apply Now!
William J. Welch Postdoctoral Fellowship
Deadline: December 20th, 2024
Focusing on "Engineering the Future of Cosmic Exploration," this fellowship covers a wide range of fields, including advanced radio #astronomy techniques, the interstellar medium, the development of cutting-edge #instrumentation and #technology in radio astronomy, time-domain / radio transient #science, and #technosignatures.
Learn more: https://www.seti.org/welch-fellowship
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https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/breakthrough-discuss-2024
"A revolution in #datascience, driven by advances in #AI, is changing how we think about searching for intelligence beyond the Earth, aided by a new willingness to consider novel #technosignatures and modes of searching…and a growing understanding of the range of environments offered by the Solar System and an increasingly diverse set of exoplanets have similarly broadened our ideas about biological possibilities…"
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'‘Amazing’ new technology set to transform the search for #AlienLife
A conference in the #UK this week will outline new developments in a project to look for ‘#technosignatures’ of other advanced species'
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Artificial Greenhouse Gases as Exoplanet #Technosignatures: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad4ce8 -> Telltale greenhouse gases could signal alien activity: https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2024/06/25/telltale-greenhouse-gases-could-signal-alien-activity - detecting intelligent life that’s light years away -> James Webb to ease hunt for extraterrestrial life, help spot alien activity: https://www.wionews.com/science/james-webb-to-ease-hunt-for-extraterrestrial-life-help-spot-alien-activity-735247
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Seti: how we’re searching for alien life at previously unexplored frequencies
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Fun couple of days at the #BreakthroughListen meeting at #SKAO this week, hearing about all the ways astronomers are searching for evidence of #technosignatures 👽 🛸 (we haven’t found any yet, but there are some really clever search techniques). The best bit? The final day pick n mix selection included UFOs…! 😁
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Beyond UFOs: The future of Unexplained Anomalous Phenomena
An interview with Shelley Wright
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/beyond-ufos-future-unexplained-anomalous-phenomena
#SETI #UAP #technosignatures #astrophysics #Astrodon #astronomy @setiinstitute
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Developing a Drift Rate Distribution for Technosignature Searches of Exoplanets: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acf83d -> New exoplanet-informed research sets clearer bounds on the search for radio #technosignatures: https://www.seti.org/press-release/new-exoplanet-informed-research-sets-clearer-bounds-search-radio-technosignatures