Scientists find no sign of aliens in study of 10 million star systems [View all]

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Australian astronomers say they've found no technological signs of alien life in a study of more than 10 million star systems.

Perth-based researchers used the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope in the Western Australian outback, in a project dubbed 'looking for ET'.

The MWA searches for powerful radio emissions at low frequencies, similar to FM radio frequencies on Earth that allow radio broadcasts.

These emissions from space, known as 'technosignatures', could possibly indicate the presence of an intelligent aliens with technological innovations similar to our own.

The team completed the 'deepest and broadest search' of a patch of sky known to include at least 10 million stars, in the southern constellation of Vela.

But the researchers concluded that, in this part of the universe, other civilisations are 'elusive, if they exist' at all.

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