SETI
Jill Tarter Video: From Searching For Aliens To Helping Hollywood Stars, And Back Again
Imagine you're a researcher at a cocktail party. You meet Carl Sagan (Carl Sagan!) and he hands you a novel. And…
Jill Tarter Explains in 30 Seconds Why We’re Searching for Aliens
After nearly four decades of of listening for for signs of life in the cosmos, astronomer Jill Tarter is one…
Will We Find Alien Life Within 20 Years? You Can Bet On It.
During a hearing last week before the U.S. House Science and Technology Committee SETI scientists Seth Shostak and Dan Werthimer…
Are we Ready for Contact?
A common criticism of science is its quick decision to experiment, without thinking about whether or not it should. While…
Kepler Has Found the First Earth-Sized Exoplanet in a Habitable Zone!
It's truly a "eureka" moment for Kepler scientists: the first rocky Earth-sized world has been found in a star's habitable…
Inside the Drake Equation: A Chat with Frank Drake
This interview with Frank Drake -- sometimes called the Father of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence – was recorded in…
Novel Strategy May Help Target Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life
Discovering life beyond Earth might just be the holy grail of science. And even though we have yet to find…
A Tale of a Lost Moon: Hubble Spies Neptune’s Moons and Its Rings
"That's no moon..." -B. Kenobi But in this case, it is... a lost moon of Neptune not seen since its…
How to Pay for That Latte on the Moon? PayPal Has a Plan
In Star Trek lore, money doesn’t exist in the 24th century. But sometime in the 21st century, when we (hopefully)…
Lone Signal: First Continous Message Beacon to Find and Say Hello to an Extraterrestrial Civilization
Although scientists have been listening for years to search for indications of other sentient life in the Universe, just a…