04 November 2015
KIC 8462852 mystery: blocked by ‘alien megastructure’ … or something more banal?
... dust could be generated by all sorts of interesting objects – be they exocomets or a giant ring system a la Saturn. Nevertheless, the SETI Institute is now using the Allen Telescope Array to look for possible radio emissions in the star’s immediate...
21 August 2019
InVADER robot to test technology for ocean world exploration
... and engineers from several institutes in the US, including the SETI Institute, and the UK, to broaden the scientific knowledge of...meters below the ocean surface," said Pablo Sobron, a SETI Institute physicist, who along with Laurie Barge at NASA JPL...
29 March 2018
The Impact of Discovering Life Beyond Earth
...to interest most readers and much to stimulate the old grey matter. I particularly like the religious questions in ‘SETI in non-Western [e.g. Buddhist] perspective’ and ‘Would you baptize an extraterrestrial?’. It is also good that, given the variety...
November 2018
Being human in space
... team at the Dwingeloo Radio Telescope, The Netherlands, have been working since 2013 across the fields of SETI, radio astronomy, neuroscience and virtual reality for the ongoing project ‘Cogito in space’(www.cogitoinspace. org...
October 2024
Cinema and extraterrestrial archaeology
.... The search for traces or remains of such civilisations is seriously considered in research programmes of NASA and the SETI Institute. The notion of the discovery of remains of extraterrestrial civilisations on other planets has inspired the plots...
November 2025
Searching for life beyond Earth
Dr Sara Seager, astrophysicist and planetary scientist at MIT, is one of the world’s leading voices in the search for life beyond our solar system. Her groundbreaking work on exoplanets, atmospheric biosignatures and space mission design has helped ...
