News tagged with extraterrestrial civilizations
Refining the search for what's 'out there'
Gregory Benford, his brother James and his nephew Dominic decided to combine their knowledge of astrophysics, space, microwaves and economics to look at the search for extraterrestrial life from a money perspective. They ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 15, 2010 |
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New Drake equation to quantify habitability?
Researchers from the Open University are laying the groundwork for a new equation that could mathematically quantify a habitat's potential for hosting life, in a similar way to how the Drake equation estimates ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Aliens don't want to eat us, says former SETI director
Alien life probably isn’t interested in having us for dinner, enslaving us or laying eggs in our bellies, according to a recent statement by former SETI director Jill Tarter.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 25, 2012 |
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Famed US alien seeker shifts gaze back to Earth
After decades spent scanning the heavens for signs of life elsewhere in the cosmos, astronomer Jill Tarter is stepping back, and letting a colleague take charge of the quest.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 22, 2012 |
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NASA researchers search for meteorite fragments in a zeppelin
It's not every day that NASA descends on your backyard, hunting for clues to extraterrestrial life.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 08, 2012 |
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UC Berkeley passes management of Allen Telescope Array to SRI
Hat Creek Radio Observatory in Northern California, from which University of California, Berkeley, telescopes – most recently the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) – scanned the Milky Way and other galaxies for 50 years ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 13, 2012 |
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35 years later, the ‘wow!’ signal still tantalizes
Since the SETI program first began searching for possible alien radio signals a few decades ago, there have been many false alarms but also instances of fleeting signals of interest which disappeared again ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 27, 2012 |
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Aliens hanging out in the Kuiper Belt? We could see the light from their cities
When it comes to searching for ET, current efforts have been almost exclusively placed in picking up a radio signal – just a small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Consider for a moment just how ...
Dec 19, 2011 |
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SETI search resumes at allen telescope array, targeting new planets
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is once again searching planetary systems for signals that would be evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence. Among its first targets are some of the exoplanet ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 06, 2011 |
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Nonterrestrial artifacts hard to pin down
(PhysOrg.com) -- Two Pioneer probes left our solar system carrying plaques about humankind, and two Voyager probes will soon join them to gather information about places far out in our galaxy. We can and will send more autonomous ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 07, 2011 |
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11/11/11: Anthropologist debunks doomsday myths
University of Kansas anthropologist and Maya scholar John Hoopes and his students are watching predicted doomsday dates such as 11/11/11 and Dec. 21, 2012, with considerable skepticism.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 03, 2011 |
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City lights could reveal E.T. civilization
In the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, astronomers have hunted for radio signals and ultra-short laser pulses. In a new paper, Avi Loeb (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) and Edwin Turner ...
Nov 03, 2011 |
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