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US astronomers launch search for alien life on 86 planets

A massive radio telescope in rural West Virginia has begun listening for signs of alien life on 86 possible Earth-like planets, US astronomers said Friday.

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created May 14, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (29) | comments 98

Finding frugal aliens: 'Benford beacons' concept could refocus search for intelligent extraterrestrial life

(PhysOrg.com) -- For 50 years, humans have scanned the skies with radio telescopes for distant electronic signals indicating the existence of intelligent alien life. The search — centered at the SETI Institute ...

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created Jul 20, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (30) | comments 39 | with audio podcast

PCs around the world unite to map the Milky Way

(PhysOrg.com) -- At this very moment, tens of thousands of home computers around the world are quietly working together to solve the largest and most basic mysteries of our galaxy.

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created Feb 10, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (34) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

SETI@home project celebrates 10th anniversary, though no ETs

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's largest and longest-running volunteer computing project, SETI@home, celebrates its tenth anniversary this month with 140,000 participants and 235,000 computers powering the search ...

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created May 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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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 ...

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created Apr 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

SETI launches SETILive.org to empower citizen scientists

As part of the TED Prize Wish made by renowned astronomer Jill Tarter, the TED Prize today launches SETI Live (setilive.org): a site where – for the first time – the public can view data being collected ...

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created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Log onto Facebook, contribute to scientific research

(PhysOrg.com) -- Logging on to Facebook could soon be a way of contributing to important scientific research, as well as finding out what’s going on in your world.

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created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

ASU cosmologist suggests studying moon for alien artifacts

(PhysOrg.com) -- If you were part of a team sent to explore an unknown planet; and that planet had a natural orbiting moon, wouldn’t it make sense to use that moon as a base camp or remote observation ...

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created Dec 26, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (36) | comments 163 | with audio podcast weblog

Scientists simulate Moon and Mars exploration in Mojave desert

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA and a team of international researchers from Mars Institute and SETI Institute returned to the Mojave Desert this month to complete a series of field tests and simulations aimed at investigating ...

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created Nov 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

An alien code close to home: Seeking ET beyond the radio silence

Any intelligent extraterrestrial life that exists probably won't announce itself by blowing up the White House, or win over the hearts of children as a lovable alien with a glowing finger. Many scientists ...

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created Oct 28, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (19) | comments 97 | with audio podcast

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 ...

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created Aug 30, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 41 | with audio podcast

Comet collision to come?

New research shows that the Earth was impacted for a few hours by a stream of dust from a potentially dangerous comet on February 4, 2011.

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created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

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 ...

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created Aug 10, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (12) | comments 27

Hubble discovers another moon around Pluto

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a fourth moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The tiny, new satellite, temporarily designated P4, was uncovered in a Hubble survey ...

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created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 16 | with audio podcast


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