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Imagine you're a researcher at a cocktail party. You meet Carl Sagan (Carl Sagan!) and he hands you a novel. And…
After nearly four decades of of listening for for signs of life in the cosmos, astronomer Jill Tarter is one…
During a hearing last week before the U.S. House Science and Technology Committee SETI scientists Seth Shostak and Dan Werthimer…
A common criticism of science is its quick decision to experiment, without thinking about whether or not it should. While…
It's truly a "eureka" moment for Kepler scientists: the first rocky Earth-sized world has been found in a star's habitable…
This interview with Frank Drake -- sometimes called the Father of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence – was recorded in…
Discovering life beyond Earth might just be the holy grail of science. And even though we have yet to find…
"That's no moon..." -B. Kenobi But in this case, it is... a lost moon of Neptune not seen since its…
In Star Trek lore, money doesn’t exist in the 24th century. But sometime in the 21st century, when we (hopefully)…