Experts have been scanning the skies in the hope of finding evidence of alien life as part of the Breakthrough Listen project, and have yielded some early results which could be promising.
The Breakthrough Listen project is a £78million ($100million) campaign established by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner and backed by the likes of Stephen Hawking and Mark Zuckerberg.
Observations of 700 stars at the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in the US has found some surprising results, and Breakthrough Listen said that there are 11 “significant” observations.
However, with countless false alarms over the years, the researchers remain understandably pessimistic.