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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

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 13

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

created May 25, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (19) | comments 54

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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created May 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Astrobiologists discover 'sweet spots' for the formation of complex organic molecules in the galaxy

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists within the New York Center for Astrobiology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have compiled years of research to help locate areas in outer space that have extreme potential for ...

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created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

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

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 ...

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created Aug 24, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (41) | comments 123 | with audio podcast report

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

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 ...

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created Apr 26, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 20 | with audio podcast report

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, ...

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created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Scientists to use blimp to look for meteorites

(AP) -- A group of scientists will board a blimp to search for meteorites that rained over California's gold country last month.

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created May 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

SETI@home completes a decade of ET search

The SETI@home project, which has involved the worldwide public in a search for radio-wave evidence of life outside Earth, marks its 10th anniversary on May 17, 2009.

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created May 01, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (32) | comments 9

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

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

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.

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created Apr 15, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (36) | comments 71 | with audio podcast

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 ...

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created Oct 01, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 49 | with audio podcast