SETI

Why Haven’t We Heard From All The Aliens? Because They’re All Dead!

According to researchers from Australia National University, the reason humanity has found no evidence of alien life may be because…

8 years ago

Watch SETI-Seeking Radio Dishes Dance Across the Universe

Radio dishes always evoke wonder, as these giants search for invisible (to our eyes, anyway) radio signals from objects like…

8 years ago

Spectacular Breakup of WT1190F Seen by Airborne Astronomers

Clouds hampered observations from the ground in Sri Lanka during the re-entry of WT1190F overnight, but a team of astronomers captured…

8 years ago

SETI Institute Undertakes Search for Alien Signal from Kepler Star KIC 8462852

"We either caught something shortly after an event like two planets crashing together or alien intelligence," said Dr. Gerald Harp,…

9 years ago

Communicating Across the Cosmos 4: The Quest for a Rosetta Stone

On television and in the movies, it’s so easy. Aliens almost always speak English (at least in America they do).…

9 years ago

Communicating Across the Cosmos, Part 3: Bridging the Vast Gulf

If extraterrestrial civilizations exist, the nearest is probably at least hundreds or thousands of light years away. Still, the greatest…

9 years ago

NASA’s “Remastered” View of Europa is the Best Yet

Europa, Jupiter's sixth-closest moon, has long been a source of fascination and wonder for astronomers. Not only is it unique…

9 years ago

Communicating Across the Cosmos, Part 2: Petabytes from the Stars?

Since it was founded in 1984, the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, California, has been a…

9 years ago

Communicating Across the Cosmos, Part 1: Shouting into the Darkness

Over the last 20 years, astronomers have discovered several thousand planets orbiting other stars. We now know that potentially habitable…

9 years ago

Making the Case for a Mission to the Martian Moon Phobos

Ask any space enthusiast, and almost anyone will say humankind’s ultimate destination is Mars. But NASA is currently gearing up…

10 years ago