Astronomers are beginning to not only listen to the cosmos but also gaze toward it for other signs of alien tech: laser beams. Breakthrough Listen, the most extensive Search for Extraterrestrial ...

tractor beams weren't necessarily something we thought would be on the top of some researcher's list to make real in our world. Especially considering if we've got them, we can be sure the aliens ...

The light emission observed from KIC 8462852 was the best candidate for an alien laser beam in the survey before it was ruled out. The results may not have been surprising, but the method is ...

An ambitious, student-run hunt for intelligent aliens is underway. The Trillion Planet Survey has begun scanning the huge Andromeda galaxy, as well as our own Milky Way, for beams of light that ...

and the force can be tuned by changing the laser power.” Other researchers have tackled tractor beams in recent years with mixed results. NASA was interested in pursuing the idea of using ...

Instead of searching the cosmos for radio signals, they’re hunting for brilliant light beams to locate ... be able to identify a CW laser beacon from a hypothetical alien civilization “as ...

They found nothing of interest. Now we know that the fabled aliens swarming KIC 8452852 aren’t trying to communicate with us via laser pulses, either. If not aliens, what in the sweet mother of ...

The groundbreaking tractor beam, made of a hollow laser beam (a laser bright around the edges and hollow in the centre), was able to move particles 0.2 mm in diameter distances up to 20 cm (7.87 ...

WASHINGTON – Tractor beams, energy rays that can move ... The device works by shining a hollow laser beam around tiny glass particles. The air surrounding the particle heats up, while the ...

An ambitious, student-run hunt for intelligent aliens is underway. The Trillion Planet Survey has begun scanning the huge Andromeda galaxy, as well as our own Milky Way, for beams of light that ...

The light emission observed from KIC 8462852 was the best candidate for an alien laser beam in the survey before it was ruled out. The results may not have been surprising, but the method is ...