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Have Radio Telescopes Detected Extraterrestrial Life?

-- Logan | October 30, 2020

Question:

Hey there, I’m currently working on an argumentative essay in my English class, and I’m looking into extraterrestrial life.
I was wondering about some of the most important findings when it comes to radio telescopes. Are there any findings that suggest that extraterrestrial life exists? Thanks a lot.

-- Logan

Answer:

No. There are several projects using radio telescopes, though, that continue to search for signals from extraterrestrials using radio telescopes, including the Breakthrough Listen project at the Green Bank Observatory and the Commensal Open-Source Multimode Interferometer Cluster Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (COSMIC SETI) project at the Very Large Array.

-- Jeff Mangum

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