Sciencefic American: Alien Hunters Discover Mysterious Signal from Proxima Centauri

It’s never aliens—until it is. Today news leaked in the British newspaper the Guardian of a mysterious signal coming from the closest star to our own, Proxima Centauri, a star too dim to see from Earth with the naked eye that is nonetheless a cosmic stone’s throw away at just 4.2 light-years. Found this autumn in archival data gathered last year, the signal appears to emanate from the direction of our neighboring star and cannot yet be dismissed as Earth-based interference, raising the very faint prospect that it is a transmission from some form of advanced extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI)—a so-called “technosignature.” Now, speaking to Scientific American, the scientists behind the disc more...

heise: Alien-Suche: SETI-Forscher untersuchen mysteriöses Signal von Proxima Centauri

Forscher von Breakthrough Listen analysieren derzeit ein Signal, das von Proxima Centauri gekommen zu sein scheint und wohl nicht natürlichen Ursprungs ist. mehr...

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...]