Sometimes, the easy calculations are the most interesting. A recent paper from Balázs Bradák of Kobe University in Japan is…
Fortunately, the real-world search for signs of extraterrestrial civilizations doesn’t have to deal with an alien armada like the one…
SETI researchers have directed their search toward interesting star systems where extraterrestrial civilizations could send signals toward Earth. According to…
Of all the questions that remain unanswered, the question of life in the Universe is surely the one that captures…
One of the fascinating things about being a human in this age is that we can do more than wonder…
Some years ago I rememeber running the SETI at Home screensaver and would watch it for hours to see if…
In 1950, during a lunchtime conversation with colleagues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, famed physicist Enrico Fermi asked the…
In 1960, Dr. Frank Drake led the first Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) experiment at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory…
A new paper recommends that future SETI experiments rely on simultaneous observations to eliminate background interference.
New research shows how intelligent life might expand in an ever-expanding Universe, which has serious implications for SETI and the…