NASA’s answer to that problem is the DeepSpaceNetwork... The phrase “a billionth of a billionth of a watt” sounds theatrical, but it is the right order of magnitude for deep-space radio ... The Deep Space Network is not one antenna.
However, astronomers have previously detected sugars like glucose and ribose inside asteroid and meteorite fragments—suggesting that life on Earth may have received a little sweet encouragement from deep space.
In this context, ASI has promoted the upgrade of the SardiniaDeepSpaceAntenna as national infrastructure for space communications, intended to support robotic and human Deep Space and NearEarth...
Operating across 140 million km of space, the control team for ESA’s Hera mission have succeeded in upgrading the software running it, leaving the spacecraft ready to explore the distant Dimorphos and Didymos asteroids this autumn ... .
Wu Weiren, chief designer of China's lunar exploration program and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, has published a new book on deep space travel and exploration.
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... Ilias Goovaerts of the SpaceTelescopeScienceInstitute, was preparing an unrelated funding proposal.He checked a deep Hubble image to see whether anyone had searched for this kind of signal before.