No alien signals have been detected from an interstellar, cigar-shaped space rock discovered travelling through the Solar System in October, researchers listening for evidence of extraterrestrial technology said. The rock which is a never-before-seen shape for an asteroid is considered to be about 400 metres long and only about 40 m wide. “No such signals have been detected” by its network of telescopes, the project said, adding: “the analysis is not yet complete”. Prior to its discovery, none of the 750,000-odd known asteroids and comets in the Solar System were thought to have originated elsewhere. “Oumuamua is most likely an asteroid, ejected from its host star in some chaotic event billions of years ago, and finding its way to our Solar System by chance,” Andrew Siemion of the University of California Berkeley told AFP.

Source: Pakistan Today December 15, 2017 06:00 UTC