SETI
Buzz About Gliese 581g: Doubts of Its Existence; Aliens Signals Detected
[/caption] Ever since the announcement of the discovery of exoplanet Gliese 581g, there has been a buzz in the news,…
Watch SETI Webcast This Week
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) is sponsoring a workshop this week on the past and next 50 years of…
Maybe ET’s Calling, But We Have the Wrong Phone
[/caption] To date, SETI (Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence) has focused on ETs who 'phone home' using the radio part of…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – SETI 2.0
[/caption] Fifty years of eerie silence in the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence has prompted some rethinking about what we should…
If the Earth is Rare, We May Not Hear from ET
[/caption] If civilization-forming intelligent life is rare in our Milky Way galaxy, chances are we won't hear from ET before…
So Where Is ET, Anyway?
While having lunch with colleagues at Los Alamos National Labs in 1950, physicist Enrico Fermi mused about the likelihood of…
A New Drake Equation? Other Life Not Likely to be Intelligent
Looking for signals from distant civilizations might be an effort in futility, according to scientists who met at Harvard University…
Should We Really Tell ET Our Problems?
[/caption]So, you have a radio transmitter and you've been tasked to send a message into space to try to communicate…
Looking For Extraterrestrials Looking At Us
[/caption]The cosmos is a very big place, how do you begin the search for exoplanets orbiting other stars? Astronomers have…
The Milky Way Could have Billions of Earths
With the upcoming launch in March of the Kepler mission to find extrasolar planets, there is quite a lot of…