SETI
If We Receive a Message From Aliens, Should We Delete it Without Reading it?
A new study considers how messages from extra-terrestrial civilizations could pose an existential threat, and what humanity should do about…
Researchers Just Scanned 14 Worlds From the Kepler Mission for “Technosignatures”, Evidence of Advanced Civilizations
In the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), a team of astronomers recently searched through the Kepler field to look for…
Updates on ‘Oumuamua. Maybe it’s a Comet, Actually. Oh, and no Word From Aliens.
On October 19th, 2017, the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System-1 (Pan-STARRS-1) in Hawaii announced the first-ever detection of…
Project Blue: Building a Space Telescope that Could Directly Observe Planets Around Alpha Centauri
An international consortium of scientists known as Project Blue hopes to crowdfund the creation of a space telescope that will…
Strange Radio Signals Detected from a Nearby Star
A recent survey conducted by the Arecibo Observatory detected a strange radio signal coming from Ross 128, a star system…
What is the Drake Equation?
In 1961, astronomer Frank Drake proposed his now-famous equation for calculating the likelihood of extra-terrestrial intelligence in the Universe.
Maybe the Aliens Aren’t Hiding, they’re Sleeping, Waiting for the Universe to Get Better
A new study by a team of researchers from the Future of Humanity Institute argues that the reason we haven't…
Are Aliens Communicating with Neutrino Beams?
In a new article, Dr. Morris Jones of METI International proposed expanding our search for evidence of intelligent life by…
Breakthrough Listen Publishes First Analysis Of 692 Stars In ET Search
Breakthrough Listen, the most ambitious SETI program in history, just released an analysis of their first year of data, which…
Earth Just Got A New Continent
Data collected over decades proves that Earth has another continent: Zealandia.