Reviving search for extraterrestrial intelligence with high-energy astronomy
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 14:06
in Astronomy & Space
What new methods can be developed in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI)? This is what a recent white paper submitted to the 2025 NASA Decadal Astrobiology Research and Exploration Strategy (DARES) Request for Information (RFI) hopes to address, as a pair of researchers from the Breakthrough Listen project and Michigan State University, discussed how high-energy astronomy could be used for identifying radio signals from an extraterrestrial technological civilization, also called technosignatures. This study has the potential to help SETI and other organizations develop novel techniques for finding intelligent life beyond Earth.