the guardian: Solar flare, radio waves or ET calling – what’s the truth about HD164595?

Russian scientists think they may have received a signal from a star 94.4 light years from Earth. Other expert alien-spotters have moved quickly to investigate [more...]

spiegel online: Mysteriöses Signal aus dem All: Forscher zweifeln an Alien-Hypothese

Ein russisches Teleskop hat ein auffälliges Radiosignal von einem fernen Sonnensystem aufgefangen. Stammt es von Außerirdischen? Astronomen haben erhebliche Zweifel. [mehr...]

centauri dreams: An Interesting SETI Candidate in Hercules

 A candidate signal for SETI is a welcome sign that our efforts in that direction may one day pay off. An international team of researchers has announced the detection of “a strong signal in the direction of HD164595” in a document now being circulated through contact person Alexander Panov. The detection was made with the RATAN-600 radio telescope in Zelenchukskaya, in the Karachay–Cherkess Republic of Russia, not far from the border with Georgia in the Caucasus. [more...]

yahoo: They’re not saying it’s aliens, but signal traced to sunlike star sparks SETI interest

SETI researchers are buzzing about a strong spike in radio signals that seemed to come from the direction of a sunlike star in the constellation Hercules, known as HD 164595. [more...]