Breakthrough Listen’s Search For ETI Gets Boost
The Breakthrough Listen initiative’s search for extra-terrestrial intelligent life just got a big boost thanks to hardware upgrades at Australia’s Parkes Radio Telescope. The upgraded equipment will help scientists conduct faster surveys of the sky and will provide an ability to scan the Milky Way’s disk and bulge in unparalleled detail. The Australian radio telescope […]
Skeleton Mystery Solved (It’s Not an Alien)
An odd looking and tiny mummified skeleton, nicknamed Ata, was found in a deserted town located in the Atacama Desert, Chile. The entire skeleton is said to be only 15.24 centimeters long. It’s described as having an elongated skull and sunken, slanted eye sockets and tiny bones. Shortly after its discovery, in 2003, the Internet […]
Calling ET: NASA Expands Search for Alien Life
The search for life beyond our own solar system has taken a major step forward with a new interdisciplinary research coalition devoted to the search for life in the cosmos. Nexus for Exoplanet System Science (NExSS) will be made up of research teams from several NASA facilities, 10 U.S. universities and two research institutions, according […]
Search for ET Centers Around Newly-discovered Earth-like Planets
The recent discovery of Earth-like planets has changed the way scientists look for life on other planets, according to the scientist who inspired Jodie Foster’s character in “Contact,” a 1997 film about the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence. Astronomer Dr. Jill Tarter, director of the SETI Institute’s Center for SETI Research in California, has devoted her […]
Are We Alone in the Universe?
Many of us believe finding some form of life beyond our own planet is inevitable, and the recent discovery of Earth-like planets – in a region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface – has renewed excitement about eventually finding extra-terrestrial life. However, two Princeton University researchers suggest those expectations may be more […]