Key Takeaways The first signals were faint, but unmistakably structured. The next twenty days may reveal whether they were coincidence or intent. If intelligence is involved, Earth’s first contact may not come from a spacecraft—it could come from a telescope in South Africa. What we pick up next may redefine the boundary between cosmic mystery MeerKAT’s next listening window opens soon, and whatever it hears—or doesn’t—will shape the rest of this story.