November 2021
The philosophy of space missions today
...environmental ethics or the ethics of astrobiology, or even SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) and METI (Messaging ...Extraterrestrial Intelligence, also known as Active SETI) if extraterrestrial life were to prove to be ...
July 2021
Arecibo - an astounding legacy
... public, Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico is known for activities as diverse as the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI) and providing a set for films such as Carl Sagan’s Contact and the James Bond thriller Goldeneye...
06 July 2015
From SETI to black crust on Churyumov-Gerasimenko: looking for alien life
... on germs, there are plenty of enthusiasts hoping to receive a signal from intelligent life somewhere in the cosmos. The SETI institute was established with precisely such hopes in mind. Its work involves studying the Kepler space...
15 June 2020
The Contact Paradox
... He didn’t find any, but that hasn’t stopped SETI developing into a field of scientific research in subsequent decades... science fiction author Stephen Baxter states in his Foreword, “If SETI succeeds, first contact will probably be a moment of crucial...
August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
...a ten-year, $100 million radio astronomy programme called SETI/HRMS (high resolution microwave survey). However, it was ... his private foundation, approximately $29 million to the SETI Institute, which developed the 42-radio antenna system known...
26 June 2020
Giant ‘Exotica’ catalogue boosts search for alien life
...violent celestial phenomena. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has been pursued as a serious scientific programme... interference, that mimic the kinds of artificial signal SETI researchers are on the lookout for. The Exotica catalogue...
