In a last week announcement it was revealed that astronomers will be working on a project to start the most intensive search ever conducted for alien life. Astronomer in the project will scan stars in galaxies to look for radio and optical signature.

It has been said that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has been met with an eerie silence; this has made scientists firmly convinced that it is worth looking out in space for alien life.

Experts who will join the project include Hannah Devlin, astronomer Frank Drake, Professor Geoff Marcy and Dr Andrew Siemion, and Dr Nick Lane, an evolutionary biochemist at University College London.

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence elsewhere in the universe has again been paid more attention, with the announcement of the Breakthrough Listen initiative.

Experts said that the idea that we might not be alone in the universe is not a new one. It has passed in and out of vogue for at least the last few centuries with past astronomers speculating on advanced life on our neighboring planets.

The idea behind the project is that once a species becomes sufficiently technologically advanced, it will advertise its presence to the cosmos in some way that could be detected by astronomers on other worlds.

The new project will cover ten times the area on the sky; it will scan a swathe of the radio spectrum five times broader, and do all this nearly one hundred times faster than any survey before.

The project will not only scan the million closest stars, it will also look for signals from throughout our galaxy. It will even look at the 100 closest galaxies, searching for extra-galactic signals, said experts.