Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence

The fireball created by re-entry of the Chinese space module generated a lot of buzz on social media.

A study recently published on May 6 indicates that the signal likely came from a Sun-like star located 1,800 light-years away from the Earth, in the constellation Sagittarius. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), which has been looking for intelligent lifeforms in the universe, is still studying the signal. 

Scientists working on NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have teamed up with Breakthrough Listen, an extraterrestrial intelligence search founded in 2015 by Russian billionaire and internet pioneer Yuri Milner.

New scientific data has led the SETI Institute to believe systems orbiting red dwarfs are worth investigating.

By comparing present orbital tilts and those predicted by computer simulations, researchers could learn how much the orbits of Saturn's moons grew.

Some of Saturn's icy moons as well as its famous rings might be modern adornments, and their dramatic birth may have taken place a mere hundred million years ago, more recent than the reign of many dinosaurs, a new study suggests.

If you were still holding out hope for aliens hanging out around KIC 8462852, I've got some bad news for you. Researchers at Iowa State University think they've found an explanation for the star's weird behavior. Spoiler alert: It's not aliens.

SETI institute scientists have turned their radio telescopes to listen to a star that many hope might hold signs of intelligent alien life -- but so far, no one is sending any signals our way.

Years ago, in the Pleistocene, I spoke with the great physicist Freeman Dyson about the search for extraterrestrial intelligence in the universe. He posited that we'd find the aliens with our telescopes - that we'd see something that was not natural.

A study by Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) noted it is possible to spot the fingerprints of certain pollutants under ideal conditions.

British astronomers have set up an experts' network to promote the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, the Royal Astronomical Society said today.

Operating on money and equipment scrounged from the public and from Silicon Valley millionaires, and on the stubborn strength of their own dreams, a band of astronomers recently restarted one of the iconic quests of modern science, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence - SETI, for short - which had been interrupted last year by a lack of fin...

The fireball created by re-entry of the Chinese space module generated a lot of buzz on social media.

A study recently published on May 6 indicates that the signal likely came from a Sun-like star located 1,800 light-years away from the Earth, in the constellation Sagittarius. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), which has been looking for intelligent lifeforms in the universe, is still studying the signal. 

Scientists working on NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have teamed up with Breakthrough Listen, an extraterrestrial intelligence search founded in 2015 by Russian billionaire and internet pioneer Yuri Milner.

New scientific data has led the SETI Institute to believe systems orbiting red dwarfs are worth investigating.

By comparing present orbital tilts and those predicted by computer simulations, researchers could learn how much the orbits of Saturn's moons grew.

Some of Saturn's icy moons as well as its famous rings might be modern adornments, and their dramatic birth may have taken place a mere hundred million years ago, more recent than the reign of many dinosaurs, a new study suggests.

If you were still holding out hope for aliens hanging out around KIC 8462852, I've got some bad news for you. Researchers at Iowa State University think they've found an explanation for the star's weird behavior. Spoiler alert: It's not aliens.

SETI institute scientists have turned their radio telescopes to listen to a star that many hope might hold signs of intelligent alien life -- but so far, no one is sending any signals our way.

Years ago, in the Pleistocene, I spoke with the great physicist Freeman Dyson about the search for extraterrestrial intelligence in the universe. He posited that we'd find the aliens with our telescopes - that we'd see something that was not natural.

A study by Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) noted it is possible to spot the fingerprints of certain pollutants under ideal conditions.

British astronomers have set up an experts' network to promote the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, the Royal Astronomical Society said today.

Operating on money and equipment scrounged from the public and from Silicon Valley millionaires, and on the stubborn strength of their own dreams, a band of astronomers recently restarted one of the iconic quests of modern science, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence - SETI, for short - which had been interrupted last year by a lack of fin...