News tagged with search for extraterrestrial intelligence
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.
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May 08, 2012 |
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Finding ET may require giant robotic leap
(Phys.org) -- Autonomous, self-replicating robots -- exobots -- are the way to explore the universe, find and identify extraterrestrial life and perhaps clean up space debris in the process, according to a Penn State engineer, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 18, 2012 |
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Analysis of the First Kepler SETI Observations
As the Kepler space telescope begins finding its first Earth-sized exoplanets, with the ultimate goal of finding ones that are actually Earth-like, it would seem natural that the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial ...
Jan 09, 2012 |
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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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Dolphins, aliens, and the search for intelligent life
How do we define intelligence? SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, clearly equates intelligence with technology (or, more precisely, the building of radio or laser beacons). Some, such as the ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 30, 2011 |
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Jodie Foster helps keep search for aliens alive
"Contact" star Jodie Foster was among donors helping to revive the 42 radio telescope dishes at a key California institute searching for extraterrestrial life, the group said Tuesday.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 17, 2011 |
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SETI's telescopes to go back online, resuming hunt for alien life
This week the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute announced that it had raised more than $200,000 from a crowd-sourced fundraising effort that launched earlier this spring. The money, which came from ...
Aug 10, 2011 |
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SETI survey focuses on Kepler's top Earth-like planets
(PhysOrg.com) -- UC Berkeley is searching for evidence of intelligent life on planets identified by the Kepler space telescope team as having Earth-like environments. This search for extraterrestrial intelligence ...
May 16, 2011 |
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SETI telescope array suspends operations due to financial constraints
(PhysOrg.com) -- SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence group that has been using radio telescopes since the 1960’s to "listen" for signals from deep space that could prove the existence of ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 26, 2011 |
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ET machines sought by astronomer
If we ever do receive a message from outer space, we’ll want to know what kind of aliens sent it. SETI researcher Seth Shostak says we shouldn’t expect them to be anything like us - in fact, they might not ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 01, 2010 |
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SETI may be looking in the wrong places: astronomer
(PhysOrg.com) -- A senior astronomer with the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute, Dr Seth Shostak, has reported in an article published online that perhaps we should be seeking alien ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 24, 2010 |
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SETI Redux: Joining the Galactic Club
In this essay, David Schwartzman, a biogeochemist at Howard University in Washington D.C., explains why he thinks the aliens are out there, despite the fact that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (S ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 24, 2010 |
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The Eerie Silence
Why have we not made contact with aliens after so many years searching the depths of space? The Eerie Silence, a new book by SETI researcher Paul Davies, provides a fresh and thoughtful look at this question.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 15, 2010 |
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