Ep.5 – China’s Role in the Global Quest to Find Aliens

Since its completion, China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope has been monitoring the heavens, observing pulsars and working to detect interstellar molecules, among other missions. Perhaps most interesting of all, the facility is expected to be a powerful tool in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. On this episode of China Untold, we investigate China’s role in the global quest to discover civilizations among the stars.