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NASA partners SETI Institute on planetary protection
Washington, July 11 (IANS) NASA has awarded the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, a $4.7…
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The man leading the search for alien life says Silicon Valley dropped the ball
Founded in 1984, SETI searches for radio or light signals indicative of life on other planets, amon…
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Serious talk about contacting aliens is sparking a fiery debate in the scientific community
Fear of the unknown didn't stop Francis Magellan, Lewis and Clark, or Neil Armstrong, human history…
Jessica Orwig
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The former director of SETI says Stephen Hawking is wrong about a key point in our search for aliens
"The idea of a civilization which has managed to survive far longer than we have ... and the fact t…
Jessica Orwig
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A Scientist Wants To Issue A Bond That Pays Big Once We Find Alien Life
"I propose the establishment of a SETI Lottery Bond to provide a continued source of funding for t…
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Astronomers have solved the mystery of 'strange signals' that appeared to come from a star 11 light-years away
Geostationary satellites orbit the Earth from about 22,236 miles high, which keeps them hovering ov…
Dave Mosher
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A serious hunt for aliens around a mysterious star is jumpstarting a new way for us to make contact
"We need to look even more closely at the nearest stars, and that's in preparation for getting read…
Jessica Orwig
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Scientists unearth remains of modern glacier near Mars' equator
Scientists have unearthed the remains of a modern glacier near Mars' equator, raising the possibili…
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A scientist who wants to contact aliens has a plan to beam the entire internet into space
If ET is out there, it seems as if they are not announcing their existence, at least not to us. The…
Jessica Orwig
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LIVE: NASA Announces An Earth-Like Planet That May Have Liquid Water
The planets were discovered using the Kepler spacecraft, launched in 2009 to look for Earth-sized p…
Dina Spector
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Scientists are days from finding out if that mysterious star could actually harbor aliens
Vakoch expects that observations will end Friday, Oct. 23 at which point they'll immediately begin …
Jessica Orwig
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That 'interesting' and possibly alien radio signal probably came from our own planet
"[T]here's really nothing about this 'signal' that would distinguish it from a natural radio transi…
Dave Mosher
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The alien-hunting team at SETI has a new test for humanity to decipher messages sent from an alien race
SETI hasn't detected a real message from aliens so it decided to simulate one and see how people re…
Jessica Orwig
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This Guy's Data Startup Is Helping Scientists Find Space Aliens
It's tech advisory board reads like a who's who in machine learning, too: UC Berkeley professor Mic…
Julie Bort
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Scientists use this formula, called the Drake equation, to explore the chance we'll make contact with intelligent aliens
Though people in the US can barely pass a basic science quiz created by the government, it's tempti…
Dave Mosher,Jenny Cheng
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Smart aliens might live within 33,000 light-years of Earth. A new study explains why we haven't found them yet.
The group agrees with famous SETI astronomer Jill Tarter, who said in 2010 that it's silly to concl…
Dave Mosher
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A contentious new proposal throws water on the idea that alien megastructures are orbiting a mysterious star
The scientists put forward several explanations for this observation, but one from Wright stuck out…
Ali Sundermier
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PayPal Is Launching A Product For Paying For Stuff In Outer Space
There are almost no details available at the moment, but this will be remedied with a press confere…
Dylan Love
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Astronomers have detected an 'interesting' and possibly alien radio signal coming from a sun-like star
"If you have an ordinary telescope dish, you can zero on one spot on the sky. That spot is usually …