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Happy 50th Birthday to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence!

SETI's Allen Telescope Array via SETI InstituteCelebrating half a century of no aliens Fifty years ago today, on April 8th, 1960, a Cornell astronomy professor named Frank Drake pointed a radio...

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New LOFAR Telescope Network Probes Universe's Low-Frequency Radiation to Look...

LOFAR's View of The Super Massive Black Hole In The 3C61.1 Galaxyvia Alpha GalileoUntil recently, radio astronomers have concentrated almost exclusively on the high-energy radiation streaming in...

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SETI Releases Its Collected Data to the Public, Wants Open-Source Search for...

The Allen Telescope ArrayRadio? What is this, the 1930s? Aliens, hit us back on Twitter. We're @Earth284.SETI, via MSNBCYour chance to spot 50 years' worth of sneakily concealed aliens Over the past...

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Search For Aliens Should Include Intelligent Machines, Says SETI Astronomer

AreciboWikimedia CommonsIf we ever find aliens, there's a good chance they'll be intelligent machines, not biological systems as we know them. So says a senior SETI astronomer.Writing in the journal...

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Researchers Call For Creation of Standardized METI Protocol For Talking To...

Allen Telescope ArrayThe Allen Telescope Array is designed to search for extraterrestrial intelligence.Wikimedia CommonsSince the first binary code sent from Puerto Rico in 1974, our messages to aliens...

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SETI Turns Radio Telescopes Toward Kepler Candidate Planets, Listening for...

Is There Anybody Out There?The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope, the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope, is listening to 86 Kepler candidate Earth-like planets in the hopes of hearing...

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Inside FAST, Soon to be the World's Biggest and Baddest Radio Telescope

FAST in 3-Dvia arXivPuerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory will soon be the world's largest radio telescope no more. After years of planning, China has broken ground on the Five-hundred-meter Aperture...

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The Search for Alien Life Is On

The Search Is OnNick KaloterakisNew missions and discoveries on Earth, within our solar system and beyond are bringing us closer than ever to finding alien life on other planets "The genesis of life is...

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SETI's Seth Shostak on How, When, and Where We Will Meet Aliens

Alien FinderTaken at the Allen Telescope ArrayCreative Commons: Colby Gutierrez-KraybillAnd whether they'll look like E.T. As part of my article about the search for extraterrestrial life, I...

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Searching for Life in All the Right Places

Listening PostScientists and amateurs use radio telescopes at the Allen Telescope Array to listen for alien transmissions.Redding Record Searchlight/ZumapressWhy we're closer than ever to the discovery...

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To Find Alien Cities, Look for City Lights on Distant Planets

Our Planet, LitImage by Craig Mayhew and Robert Simmon, NASA GSFC.The search for extraterrestrial life elsewhere in our universe has taken many forms, from the radio signal searching undertaken by SETI...

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Remote Aliens Could Detect Life On Earth By Looking At the Moon

Crescent Moon and EarthshineThe thin crescent moon sets over ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile. The crescent is clearly visible, but you can also see the rest of the moon very faintly, because of the...

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NASA and SETI Rent a Giant Zeppelin to Hunt for Meteorite Over Nevada

Airship Ventures' ZeppelinAirship VenturesBack on April 22, residents of California and Nevada had their day interrupted by a series of sonic booms and a huge daytime fireball in the sky, products of...

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At SETIcon 2012: Planetary Spit-Swapping, Dark Energy As a Singularity and...

Space CocktailsThe cocktails at the convention bar were crafted with space cadets in mind.Rebecca BoyleThis is ground control to SETIcon SANTA CLARA, CALIF. - I'm huddled outside the Hyatt hotel...

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Fomalhaut B: The Mote in Sauron's Eye

Sauron's Eye Hubble images taken in 2012 confirm that Fomalhaut b is a planet, and an unusual one at that.NASA and ESAThe controversial exoplanet Fomalhaut b has been spotted, and it's even stranger...

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New LOFAR Telescope Network Probes Universe's Low-Frequency Radiation to Look...

LOFAR's View of The Super Massive Black Hole In The 3C61.1 Galaxy via Alpha GalileoUntil recently, radio astronomers have concentrated almost exclusively on the high-energy radiation streaming in...

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SETI Releases Its Collected Data to the Public, Wants Open-Source Search for...

The Allen Telescope Array Radio? What is this, the 1930s? Aliens, hit us back on Twitter. We're @Earth284. SETI, via MSNBCOver the past decade, those who wished to contribute to SETI's mission of...

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Search For Aliens Should Include Intelligent Machines, Says SETI Astronomer

Arecibo Wikimedia Commons If we ever find aliens, there's a good chance they'll be intelligent machines, not biological systems as we know them. So says a senior SETI astronomer.Writing in the journal...

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Researchers Call For Creation of Standardized METI Protocol For Talking To...

Allen Telescope Array The Allen Telescope Array is designed to search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Wikimedia Commons Since the first binary code sent from Puerto Rico in 1974, our messages to...

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SETI Turns Radio Telescopes Toward Kepler Candidate Planets, Listening for...

Is There Anybody Out There? The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope, the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope, is listening to 86 Kepler candidate Earth-like planets in the hopes of hearing...

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