Alien messages responding to NASA signals could reach us by 2029

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Space

Radio signals sent to NASA spacecraft could person already reached 4 neighbouring prima systems, and if immoderate aliens tried to respond, we mightiness perceive from them wrong a fewer years from now

By Alex Wilkins

A vigor antenna astatine the Deep Space Network’s Canberra installation successful Australia

NASA/Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex

If aliens are adjacent and listening successful connected our spacecraft bid signals, we could perceive backmost from them arsenic aboriginal arsenic 2029.

Since 1972, NASA has utilized a strategy of vigor antennae called the Deep Space Network (DSN) to way spacecraft and nonstop almighty vigor signals towards them.

Howard Isaacson astatine the University of California, Berkeley, and Reilly Derrick astatine the University of California, Los Angeles, worked retired which stars these vigor signals whitethorn person reached and erstwhile …

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