October 2019
Are we prepared for SETI discovery?
... concentrated on our own solar system. However, practically at the same time, SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) initiated systematic research that concentrated efforts on the detection of possible signals from the neighbourhood of stars...
August 2020
Revisiting the Drake Equation - a cultural addendum
...science, radio astronomer Frank Drake created the Drake Equation to stimulate dialogue about the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Here, space anthropologist and author Savannah Mandel asks if it is time to look again at the famous seven-part...
November 2021
The philosophy of space missions today
... the ethical model known in military ethics. Philosophers ponder not only whether we should inform a potential extraterrestrial intelligence of our existence at all, but also what protocols Earth residents should apply in the event of an encounter...
26 June 2020
Giant ‘Exotica’ catalogue boosts search for alien life
... of objects observed during a programme. This should help astronomers constrain the range of potential habitats for extraterrestrial intelligence, as well as rule out the possibility that any phenomena widely considered natural are in fact artificial...
01 August 2016
SETI has new eyes on the skies
The first modern Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI) experiment at low radio frequencies is underway, as researchers utilise the capabilities of the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) to ...
July 2020
Are we entering a post-Overview Effect era?
... to Earth, it is less clear how it might affect human migration into the solar system and/or contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. Left: Only 24 people have seen Earth this way first-hand, but the Apollo crew’s photographs...
