Is there an Arid meteor outburst in the works this week?
The new Arid meteor shower may be making itself known in early October 2021.
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Why we need a new type of SETI instrument
Imagine this scenario: On a world orbiting a neighboring star, a society more advanced than our own has used large telescopes to survey all the planets within a few hundred light-years. In this sample of a million worlds, ...
Astronomy
Jul 18, 2017
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Exploding stars make key ingredient in sand, glass
We are all, quite literally, made of star dust. Many of the chemicals that compose our planet and our bodies were formed directly by stars. Now, a new study using observations by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reports for ...
Astronomy
Nov 19, 2018
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NASA asks public to provide videos and photos of meteor
(Phys.org) -- NASA and the SETI Institute are asking the public for more information to help find amateur photos and video footage of the daylight meteor that illuminated the sky over the Sierra Nevada mountains and created ...
Space Exploration
Apr 26, 2012
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Public asked to help name features on Pluto
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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Talking to aliens
What do you say to a space alien? This question might not be the foremost puzzle in your life, but it was the subject of a lively two-day conference at California's SETI Institute this week.
Space Exploration
Nov 17, 2014
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A new collaboration to aid the search for life on distant worlds
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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Searching for aliens in the cloud
As a species, human beings are obsessed with the idea that there may be aliens out there, somewhere beyond our planet.
Space Exploration
May 7, 2014
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A system to automate traffic fines designed
Researchers at Universidad Carlos III in Madrid have designed a system that automates the administrative sanctioning process by applying communication and information technologies to traffic flow and using sensors built into ...
Engineering
Oct 9, 2012
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New Laser SETI project will look for signals that most telescopes cannot see
Big discoveries in science are often made when innovative instruments probe nature in new ways. Laser SETI will search the sky for a variety of pulsed light signals that might have been overlooked before. We may find ET, ...
Astronomy
Aug 1, 2017
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