Again, the scientists have not found the aliens

Another large-scale project to search for extraterrestrial intelligence did not bring any results. Astronomers working with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope were unable to detect signs of extraterrestrials when examining more than 10 million star systems in the constellation of Parus (Latin Vela), according to Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia.

Chenoa Tremblay of the CSIRO and Stephen Tingay of ICRAR were looking for low radio frequencies similar to those produced by our own civilization. The MWA telescope, located in Western Australia, has a frequency range of 80 to 300 MHz. Astronomers were looking for radio waves between 98 and 128 MHz.

This latest study by the SETI project (English SETI, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) was conducted in January 2018 and included an area of space that contains at least six exoplanets. To date, 75 known exoplanets have been studied at low frequencies using the MWA telescope.

The zero result is not surprising, since the explored part of the cosmos is still exceptionally small by universal standards. In the press release Tingay said this is equivalent to trying to find something in Earth's oceans using a volume of water equivalent to a pool.

But the search continues, and once the world's largest radio interferometer Square Kilometer Array is completed in Western Australia, it will be able to scan billions of star systems with a sensitivity 50 times higher than MWA.