An out-of-this-world research project is taking off to see if extraterrestrial societies exist and, if so, if they can develop space travel technology.
A multi-institutional team led by Avi Loeb, a Harvard University professor of science in the department of astronomy, created the Galileo Project. Project organizers told Live ScienceĀ in a statement that they will look for and study evidence of live or defunct “extraterrestrial technological civilizations,” or ETCs.
Using data from astronomical surveys and telescope observations, the project will develop new algorithms to identify prospective interstellar visitors, alien-built satellites, and mysterious aerial occurrences.
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Italian astronomer and physicist, Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642) using a telescope, circa 1620.
The New York PostĀ saidĀ “Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth,”Ā written by Loeb and published in January 2021, made a…