Our Nearest Star Just Called. We Have No Answer

Added: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]Our nearest star sent us a signal one time, then went silent forever. [music] In April 2019, the park's telescope detected something it shouldn't have, a radio signal, narrow, clean, stationary, [music] from the direction of Proxima Centuri, 4.2 light years away. The frequency was 982 MHz, [music] exactly the band we would use to make contact. Every satellite was checked.

[00:00:29]Every transmitter eliminated. It [music] came from the star. Proxima Centauri hosts a planet inside its habitable zone. [music] The signal was never repeated. No explanation has been confirmed. Right now, that telescope is pointed at the same patch of sky listening and the star is not answering.