Pluto reveals more secrets
Eight months after its encounter with the New Horizons spacecraft, Pluto continues to surprise the scientists who study this distant world.
Eight months after its encounter with the New Horizons spacecraft, Pluto continues to surprise the scientists who study this distant world.
Space Exploration
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The Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey (GPIES) is an ambitious three-year study dedicated to imaging young Jupiters and debris disks around nearby stars using the GPI instrument installed on the Gemini South telescope ...
Astronomy
Nov 12, 2015
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Could there be intelligent life in the star system KIC 8462852? A recent analysis of data collected by the Kepler space telescope has shown that this star, informally known as Tabby's Star, evidences aperiodic dimming of ...
Astronomy
Nov 6, 2015
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The idea that we can learn about possible extraterrestrial (ETI) communication systems by studying non-human communications on Earth is similar to the astrobiological idea that one might learn more about exobiology by studying ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 2, 2015
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Lori Fenton, Senior Research Scientist and Vice-Chair of the Planetary Exploration Research Thrust at the SETI Institute
Space Exploration
Oct 21, 2015
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A new influx of money has saved the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) from collapse, but what does the future hold for our quest to discover intelligent life in the Universe?
Astronomy
Sep 10, 2015
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Stephen Hawking, Frank Drake and dozens of journalists gathered at the Royal Society in London last week to hear astronomers announce a ground-breaking new project to search for intelligent extraterrestrial life called "Breakthrough ...
Astronomy
Aug 4, 2015
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A new NASA initiative is embracing a team approach to the problem of finding life on planets around other stars.
Astronomy
Apr 22, 2015
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On July 14, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will fly past Pluto, offering the first close-up look at that small, distant world and its largest moon, Charon. These denizens of the outer solar system will be transformed from ...
Space Exploration
Mar 24, 2015
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Should we beam messages into deep space, announcing our presence to any extraterrestrial civilizations that might be out there? Or, should we just listen? Since the beginnings of the modern Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence ...
Space Exploration
Feb 20, 2015
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