1327 Star Analysis and Public Data Release Today, we are pleased to announce our release of 1 petabyte of Breakthrough Listen data, and two academic papers as submitted to leading astronomy journals. Building on the results we presented in 2017,
FRB 180301: Astrophysical, aliens or anthropogenic? Back in March last year, we reported the serendipitous detection of a Fast Radio Burst (FRB 180301) during our Breakthrough Listen observations at the CSIRO Parkes radio telescope in Australia. We are pleased
SETI observations of asteroid BZ509 We have just released a short AAS Research Note on a search for technosignatures from asteroid (514017) 2015 BZ509 (aka BZ509). While we didn't find any candidate signals, we'll be searching a selection
New Parkes instrument paper published in PASA We're pleased to announce that our journal article detailing the Breakthrough Listen data recorder at the Parkes radio telescope has been published in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia. The Breakthrough-Parkes
Deeper Wider Faster SETI Over the next two days, we will be participating in some exciting coordinated observations as part of the Deeper, Wider, Faster (DWF) collaboration. For a few hours of our time on the Parkes
ABC Stargazing Live Last week, Breakthrough Listen participated in the Australia Broadcasting Corporation's Stargazing Live TV show (for those of you in Australia, you can still catch the episode on ABC iView). The show was jam-packed
FRB Breakthrough Listen detects a new Fast Radio Burst Detection of FRB 180301 with the Breakthrough Listen backend instrument at the Parkes Radio Telescope. The top panel shows the de-dispersed pulse while the bottom panel shows the frequency structure with the pulse
oumuamua Silence from 'Oumuamua We've completed our analysis of 8 hours of Green Bank Telescope observations of "interstellar visitor" 'Oumuamua. Billions of channels, covering the frequency range 1 - 12 GHz, were scanned, over an
'Oumuamua observations in 3,2,1... As indicated in our press release, we are excited to be focusing our observational efforts on ‘Oumuamua, the mysterious interloper recently spotted moving rapidly through the solar system. Our ‘Oumuamua observation campaign will
GBT SETI observations of 'exo-Earth' Ross 128b Exciting news: the HARPS exoplanet hunter team have discovered a new, Earth-like exoplanet orbiting around the star Ross 128, one of our closest neighbors. This newly discovered 'exo-Earth', designated Ross 128b, is particularly
GBT Observations of 692 Nearby Stars with the GBT Earlier this year, we submitted a paper on our analysis of 692 stars (press release). We are happy to announce that it has now been accepted for publication in AAS. For those of
Now that’s some serious bandwidth The team at Berkeley SETI wrote a technical paper describing the super-wide-bandwidth Breakthrough Listen instrument at the Green Bank Telescope. It has now been accepted to the journal Publications of the Astronomical Society
arecibo Ross 128? We're on it. Listen investigates star after claim of possible signal. There has been a lot of press attention in the last week to mysterious signals, seen by Prof. Abel Mendez at Arecibo Observatory, that appear
Breakthrough Listen's Top 11 Breakthrough Listen - the initiative to find signs of intelligent life in the universe – has released its 11 events ranked highest for significance as well as data analysis results. It is considered unlikely
Tabby's star dims again Tabby's Star has started another dip. Probably not alien megastructures, but we're working on follow-up observations to try to constrain some of the other theories. The Atlantic has a good writeup.
