September 2017
Science searches for cosmic company
...may change. New approaches Today, there is increased enthusiasm for SETI. While this is partially due to the surge in planetary... than were targeted during the first half-century of SETI. California’s SETI Institute is getting a head start on these far...
June 2018
Cosmic communications and the anthropology of outer space
... imagines how many ET civilizations there might be with whom we might communicate. It helps narrow the ‘maybes’ that SETI astronomers tangle with. The ‘Drake Equation’ is designed to calculate N, the number of civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy...
November 2020
The alien hunter’s field manual
...and HabEx missions. In Case 3, relevant for JWST and SETI large scale technosignature searches, the survey sizes are balanced and...James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) with a large scale SETI search for technosignatures. In this case, each survey provides...
February 2016
Nuclear Flashlamps in Space
... of Centaur object 10199 Chariklo that orbits between Saturn and Uranus The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has always tacitly assumed that any civilization that it might detect would be far beyond our own...
07 September 2020
A new study helps narrow the search for intelligent life
... method used by the University of Manchester team could help boost those results on a quicker timescale. “We expect future SETI surveys to also make good use of this approach” concluded Garrett. Garrett and colleagues work has now...
July 2020
Life in the universe – common or not?
Our planet is testament to the fact that life can be found in the vast expanse of space. But how statistically likely is it that life is abundant elsewhere, beyond the Earth? The good news is that it is possible; the bad news is that it is likely to...
