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Could this telescope find life on alien worlds?

The ExoLife Finder (ELF) looks like no telescope ever built. A spectacular crown of 15 five-meter mirrors perches atop a ...
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Will the James Webb telescope lead us to alien life? Scientists say we're getting closer than ever.

For the past two years, this question has been the subject of intense debate among alien-hunting scientists, with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at its center. Captured in the powerful ...
ExtremeTech

Scientists plan to aim the world's most powerful telescopes at the 'alien megastructure star'

There has to be recognizable life out there, somewhere close enough we can find it. That's the idea behind SETI, and also the huge new alien-hunting Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope ...
Live Science

Largest crowd-sourced hunt for alien intelligence reveals 12 billion 'signals of interest' in collapsed Arecibo Observatory data

A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 'signals of interest' with the world's largest radio telescope. When you purchase through links on ...
New Scientist

Could a huge lunar telescope be our best chance of spotting aliens?

The All-Seeing Eye, which came into operation in the 2070s, was by far the largest and most powerful optical instrument ever built. Comprising eight telescopes built across the entire lunar surface, ...