• Kepler Observes Objects Circling A Distant Star

    Kepler Observes Objects Circling A Distant Star2

    • October 14, 2015

    When scientists in 2009 pointed the Kepler Space Telescope to a cluster of distant stars, something interesting was observed. Nestled between the Cygnus and Lyra constellations sits a cluster of bright objects. Invisible to the naked eye or to telescopes here on Earth, the cluster of lights is indicative of something abnormal seen throughout space.

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  • The Seager Equation: The Search For Life

    The Seager Equation: The Search For Life2

    • September 9, 2013

      Thousands of years ago, our nearest celestial neighbor, the Moon was believed to be inhabited. We have since learned it is not. Hundreds of years ago we discovered several of the stars in our night sky were actually planets, and speculation grew.  Percival Lowell popularized the idea that Mars, our next neighbor to the

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  • Messages From Earth

    Messages From Earth2

    • June 12, 2013

    While SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) spends its time listening to space for signs that there might be someone out there transmitting signals that could reach us, METI (Messaging to Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is sending out an interstellar wake-up call to our neighbors by re-purposing an old Apollo era transmitting/receiving station. From Universe Today Lone Signal:

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  • Alien Message In Our Genetic Code?

    Alien Message In Our Genetic Code?4

    • April 3, 2013

    “Simple arrangements of the code reveal an ensemble of arithmetical and ideographical patterns of symbolic language.” They say this includes the use of decimal notation, logical transformations, and the use of the abstract symbol of zero. “Accurate and systematic, these underlying patterns appear as a product of precision logic and nontrivial computing,” They’re talking about

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  • Searching For UFOs, Instead We Find Ourselves

    Searching For UFOs, Instead We Find Ourselves6

    • April 30, 2012

    Seth Shostak is a respected researcher and commentator on the subject of the search for alien life. He has written a very well thought out article on the hunt for UFOs, and about the people who report them, for the Huffington Post. I thought I would share it here. Seth Shostak Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute

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  • The Search For Alien Life Goes Super-Viral With New Website

    The Search For Alien Life Goes Super-Viral With New Website6

    • March 2, 2012

    Keeping in line with SETI, there is now a brand new website called SETIlive.org where ordinary people can sign up to assist in the search for intelligent life in the Universe. The idea was to get us involved in using our abilities as humans to process and discover in ways that a computer just cannot

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  • SETI Resumes. Focuses On Kepler-22b For Aliens

    SETI Resumes. Focuses On Kepler-22b For Aliens4

    • December 6, 2011

      Kepler-22b. That’s the name of the exoplanet that NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has discovered. What’s so fascinating about this exoplanet is that like our Earth, Kepler-22b orbits in a similar solar system as ours and is believed to hold liquid water. What’s more, scientists believe that the overall temperate on Kepler-22b is a comfortable 72

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  • Search For Intelligent Life May Expand Beyond Earth-Like Planets

    Search For Intelligent Life May Expand Beyond Earth-Like Planets4

    • November 22, 2011

    In the search for extraterrestrial life, Astrobiologists are now proposing a new planetary rating system says study leader, Dirk Schulze-Makuch from Washington State University. The proposed scales would include an Earth Similarity Index, or “ESI” for short, This index would rate planets that are most akin to our third rock. While this pursuance for life

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  • SETI Back Up and Running Thanks To Jodie Foster and Others

    SETI Back Up and Running Thanks To Jodie Foster and Others12

    • August 12, 2011

    Well, it looks like the search for ET will continue as SETI has finally received enough money to get their dishes rotating again, at least till the end of the year. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence or SETI for short is a program that does just that, searches the skies for ET or evidence of

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  • SETI Freezes Operations Awaiting Funding5

    • April 27, 2011

    If the truth is out there, then we’re gonna have to wait awhile before finding it. SETI has announced that they will begin freezing most of their operations due to a lack of funding. The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence program has been evolving for decades with the help of prominent scientists like Carl Sagan. Now,

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