Irish scientists on team scanning for signs of intelligent alien life

Astrophysicists scan the galaxy for signs of life — and there's an international protocol for if and when they find it

Main image: Aerial view of the I-LOFAR array. Top right: Owen Johnson, PhD Candidate in Trinity’s School of Physics, is the first Irish person to ever undertake a PhD on the topic of SETI Lower right: Professor Evan Keane, Associate Professor of Radio Astronomy in Trinity’s School of Physics, and Head of the Irish LOFAR Telescope

Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying — Arthur C. Clarke

Astrophysicists from Trinity College Dublin are scanning the Universe for 'technosignatures' coming from distant planets that would provide support for the existence of intelligent, alien life.