October 2019
Are we prepared for SETI discovery?
...the US, where traditionally the funding of astrobiological research is the task of the state but SETI is definitely excluded, SETI experts want SETI to be considered as a part of astrobiology. And really there are no arguments against such a decision...
15 October 2018
SETI partners with MeerKAT to search for alien life
... on another planet, it might take a world of telescope power on our own planet to locate it, and that is just what SETI plans to do, as the organisation’s Breakthrough Listen initiative announces the start of a major new programme with the MeerKAT...
01 August 2016
SETI has new eyes on the skies
...skies for the tell-tale signs of an advanced civilisation. SETI experiments using radio telescopes first started in 1960 when Cornell ... covered was not particularly big. Nonetheless, this SETI pilot experiment has proved successful and taking into ...
30 August 2016
Is there anybody out there? SETI researchers look to explain mysterious signal
... Bursov of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Special Astrophysical Observatory considers HD 164595 a good candidate for further SETI investigation. Doug Vakoch, president of METI International (based in San Francisco), has said that his research group...
August 2020
Revisiting the Drake Equation - a cultural addendum
...to detect interstellar radio waves. This groundbreaking SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) experiment was .... The screenplay for the 1997 film Contact is based on a SETI scientist who finds evidence of alien life. The book on which ...
14 September 2018
AI helps find new pulses from mysterious FRB source
... research paper, Andrew Siemion, and Bernard M. Oliver from the SETI Institute, the team taught their algorithm – known as a convolutional... at the Hat Creek Observatory in California, is SETI’s dedicated instrument for scouring the skies to look for...
