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interstellar visitor Oumuamua is a ‘ripped fragment’ from a destroyed planet

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The strange cigar-shaped Oumuamua space rock discovered in 2017 was ripped from a planet and sent hurtling into space after it came too close to its star.  When it appeared it became the first visitor from another star system to be spotted from Earth, and astronomers have speculated on its origins ever since.  Experts from National … Read more

Alien hunters are searching for signatures emitted from ‘interstellar beacons’ using telescopes

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If aliens are using an interstellar beacon to contact Earth, scientists at the SETI Institute are going to find it. The team believes advanced lifeforms have placed a transmitter in the center of the galaxy and are developing techniques to detect signatures from the technology. SETI scientist are developing a system that ‘piggybacks’ off the … Read more