Last week, the project announced that the signal was finally decoded back in July of 2024 by Ken and Keli Chaffin, a father-daughter team who ran simulations on the signal “for hours and days on end,” according to the ESA press release. The duo eventually discerned that hints of biological information could be found throughout the message, and eventually discerned that the signal contained the structures of five amino acids, which are the building blocks of proteins (a.k.a. the foundations of life).