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For more than 60 years, scientists have been searching the cosmos for possible signs of radio transmission that would indicate the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI). In that time, the ...
For a number of decades, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI) has been combing the stars for signs of a technologically advanced civilization lurking in their midst. And ...
Aliens, art, and artificial intelligence are about to collide at the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Institute (SETI) in Mountain View, California, which has awarded Mexico City artistic research ...
The Breakthrough Listen project will use the Automated Planet Finder to observe a controversial sampling of stars. (Credit: Vogt et al. 2014 / UC-Berkeley / Lick Observatory) Two astronomers have ...
In the late 1970s, Douglas Vakoch’s science fair project had nothing to do with baking-soda volcanoes, battery life, or any other school kid standards. Instead, it was about aliens—and how humans ...
A powerful signal has been spotted coming from the vicinity of a sunlike star, and now astronomers are trying to figure out what it means. The astronomers have not yet published a study about the ...