In 1977, the Wow! The signal was detected, a brief, strong radio transmission from space that has since remained the most compelling candidate for an extraterrestrial radio message ever received ...

SETI@home remained in operation for 20 years—it involved 5.2 million volunteers from 226 countries, reached up to 617 teraFLOPS of computational power, and made science more accessible.

“The Wow! signal has always been divisive in the SETI community,” says Jason Wright, an astronomer at Pennsylvania State University, who was not involved with the new work.

Space Do you know about the 1977 “Wow! Signal”? A sign from a distant civilization or just an unexplained phenomenon? Mankind began listening for signals from space over 100 years ago ...

While Méndez may have finally snuffed out the Wow! signal’s enduring mystery, his work still contributes to SETI’s goals.

Credit: Big Ear Radio Observatory and North American AstroPhysical Observatory (NAAPO).The Wow! Signal has captivated the imagination of scientists and the public alike since its detection in 1977.

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One of the most enduring mysteries of astronomy and space science is something that’s come to be universally known as the ‘Wow! signal’. Back in the 1970s, a concentrated effort in the search for ...

SETI astronomers were “people that I was a little worried about, with destroying the Wow! Signal … but no, they’re fine with that,” Mendez says.

Now known as the " Wow! signal " after the incredulous expression scribbled by astronomer Jerry Ehman on a printout of telescope data, the mysterious transmission was picked up by The Ohio State ...

As radio SETI searches expand, perhaps we’ll find more of these maser flares or other possible messages from beyond—or maybe, even a repeat of the famed Wow! signal itself.