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Search for ET: The high-profile supporters

The resumption of operations at California’s Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI) was made possible by donations from celebrity supporters including Jodie Foster. Jodie Foster -...

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Status of the UC-Berkeley SETI Efforts

Distribution of Astropulse candidates on the sky. The dots are the potential sources. Contours are LAB HI survey logarithmic contours. The dashed horizontal lines represent the limits of Arecibo’s...

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Life in the Universe by Stephen Hawking

In this talk, I would like to speculate a little, on the development of life in the universe, and in particular, the development of intelligent life. I shall take this to include the human race, even...

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How SETI@Home Screens ET Candidates

SETI@Home volunteers have found 4.2 billion signals of interest since the project began in 1999. What happens to them? SETI@Home is a distributed computing initiative that analyses radio signals for...

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Detection Technique for Artificially-Illuminated Objects ….

….in the Outer Solar System and Beyond Abraham Loeb and Edwin L. Turner Existing optical telescopes and surveys can detect artificially-illuminated objects comparable in total brightness to a major...

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The Fermi Paradox, Self-Replicating Probes …

… and the Interstellar Transportation Bandwidth Keith B. Wiley It has been widely acknowledged that self-replicating space-probes (SRPs) could explore the galaxy very quickly relative to the age of the...

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Time to give SETI a chance

by Jill Tarter - newscientist Earth 2.0 is in our sights. Checking it for signs of life will be the next big issue THE thousands of probable worlds discovered in orbit around other stars are making our...

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How would the public react if Seti found evidence of alien life?

‘In a sense, we’ve run that experiment,’ says Seth Shostak, chief alien hunter at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Seti uses the Allen Telescope Array to monitor thousands of stars for...

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First VLBI SETI Search Finds No Radio Transmissions

… From Gliese 581 Astronomers have completed the first search for extraterrestrial intelligence on nearby exoplanets using very long baseline interferometry uv coverage of the LBA observation of the...

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A Career Waiting for E.T. to Phone

Elwood H. Smith – Copyright 2012 The New York Times Company By DENNIS OVERBYE Jill Tarter once complained to me that she had no poetry in her soul. It was 1990, and NASA was getting ready to undertake...

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UK SETI Research Network

UK astronomers to co-ordinate their search for alien signals British scientists are to make a concerted effort to look for alien life among the stars. Academics from 11 institutions have set up a...

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The Ĝ Infrared Search for Extraterrestrial Civilizations with Large Energy...

I.  Background and Justification J. T. Wright, B. Mullan, S. Sigurðsson, M. S. Povich We motivate the Ĝ infrared search for extraterrestrial civilizations with large energy supplies. We discuss some...

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