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On November 16, 1974, humans sent their first message to the stars in an attempt to contact extraterrestrials. They did this using what was then the largest radio telescope in the world, located at ...

Dr. Vakoch is the president of METI International, a nonprofit focused around extraterrestrial communication. On Nov. 16, 1974, scientists fired off a nearly three-minute radio message into space with ...

The new message is really cool, but we need to have a serious discussion about whether we should be trying to contact extraterrestrials. Reading time 5 minutes An international team of scientists has ...

A study on the new message titled "A Beacon in the Galaxy: Updated Arecibo Message for Potential FAST and SETI Projects" published in the journal Galaxies. The new message is a successor to the famous ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook 48 years ago, scientists began broadcasting a message into the depths of space, hoping to contact ...

Before-and-after images of the Arecibo Observatory show a dramatic collapse that ended an era in space research. Astronomers mourned the loss of the observatory, which faced natural disasters. For ...

In 1974, NASA sent an unusual message a long way into space. Scientists transmitted a picture message towards the globular star cluster Messier 13, located near the edge of the Milky Way. Its target: ...

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