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Loading contentThe search for signs of technology — radio and optical signals, and other technosignatures — carried out by the SETI Institute and programs like Breakthrough Listen. A search for intelligence, distinct from the search for microbial life.
The search for signs of intelligent life.
A sign not of life but of technology — a radio or optical signal, an artificial light, an industrial pollutant, or a megastructure. The search for technosignatures is the search for intelligence, led by SETI and Breakthrough Listen.
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Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.
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