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Since Hollywood-inspired scenarios of how we'll meet aliens for the first time are not too likely to happen, scientists are taking matters into their own hands. They have recently decided to conduct a new type of study, one that would focus on finding tracks that aliens may have left behind here on Earth.
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27 October 2011
08:59 GMT |
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As more and more experts start to move from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) to attempting to message alien civilizations (METI), critics are arguing that its safer to limit ourselves to observations. These critics are more useful to characterizing them than alien races. Since the dawn of time, the... |
11 July 2011
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A Russian expert recently announced in a press conference that he believes our species will meet with an alien race as soon as two decades. Astronomer Andrei Finkelstein made the announcement during a meeting that was held on June 27. He is convinced that extraterrestrial intelligence exists, and that our two civiliz... |
30 June 2011
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Due to lack of funding, the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) has been put into what experts at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) are calling a safe mode. This means that the equipment at the northern California site will be kept minimally operational, by a heavily reduced staff. This measure ensures that... |
26 April 2011
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Investigators figured out a few years ago that certain locations on our planet tend to mimic conditions that most likely existed on Mars millions to billions of years ago. Studies conducted at these spots are currently being put together to create a timeline of how things evolved on the Red Planet. One of the main re... |
10 December 2010
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Investigators who search for signs of extraterrestrial activities and intelligence in the Universe are ready to start listening in again on distant worlds that were first surveyed some 50 years ago. At the time, the first search for radio signals emanating from other civilizations ended up with no tangible results, b... |
11 November 2010
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Some of you may remember the name of the exoplanet Gliese 581g as the first ever extrasolar body to be found orbiting its star inside the habitable zone, which allows for the existence of liquid water. This made astronomers refer to it as the “second Earth,” and caused quite a stir in the international sc... |
12 October 2010
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After years of listening for alien signals and developing ways of reaching out to an intelligent extraterrestrial civilization, scientists are now pondering whether or not humanity should shout out loud into space.At the SETIcon convention, famous astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has said that contacted extraterrestria... |
18 August 2010
10:39 GMT |
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Experts working at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute in Mountain View, California, announced on Sunday that we may find alien life within a quarter of a century.According to SETI senior astronomers Seth Shostak, who spoke at the SETI conference over the weekend, proof that intelligent extr... |
17 August 2010
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Last Saturday was the 50th anniversary of the first experiment searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, called Project Ozma, and also the 80th birthday of astronomer Frank Drake, the man behind the project.Drake received top honors at the banquet gala at the SETIcon convention for in 1960, he decided to begin a s... |
16 August 2010
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One of the theories scientists proposed on Saturday at the SETIcon conference that extraterrestrial civilizations may be more interested in our art than our science.The idea makes a lot of sense when considering that aliens would, most likely, be older and more advanced than we are. This would mean that, in an encoun... |
16 August 2010
02:25 GMT |
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A theory launched by Gregory Benford, UC Irvine astrophysicist, and his brother James, a physicist specializing in high-powered microwave technology, says that alien signals are most likely to be transmitted as pulsed signals, narrowly directed and in the 1-10 gigahertz range.For the last 50 years, people became more... |
21 July 2010
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Years ago, several radio signals containing information about the Earth and the human race were sent into deep space. Astronomers hope that someone, or something, will pick them up on the other side of the Universe, and realize that they are not alone. But, while contacting aliens would arguably be the most important... |
1 April 2010
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A number of astronomers and astrobiologists believe that our galaxy, the Milky Way, may be home to a large variety of extraterrestrial organisms, inhabiting other planets in other star systems. But they also believe that we may never be able to communicate or identify these creatures, largely because many of the new ... |
1 March 2010
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In James Cameron's new fantasy movie Avatar, a private corporation conducts an off-world strip mining operation on the exomoon Pandora. The script places this world around a massive gas giant located in the Alpha Centauri system, which is a real star system some 4.4 light-years away from Earth. But space analyst... |
30 January 2010
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For many years, astronomers have been looking for exoplanets around Sun-like stars, as they believe that these celestial bodies have the highest chances of harboring planets similar to our own. However, in recent studies, it has been demonstrated that planetary formation is a direct, natural byproduct of stellar form... |
7 January 2010
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Finding radio signals that may be sent throughout the Universe by advanced cultures living among the stars has fascinated researchers for quite some time, and, ever since the technology has become available, surveys of the skies have pointed telescope antennas at many sources of radio wavelengths, hoping to find mess... |
17 September 2009
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Even though it may sound like something that comes out of the science-fiction books, the NASA American space agency and the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) initiative, along with scientists, psychologists, ethicists, lawyers, representatives of the media and anthropologists, have recently held a thre... |
19 February 2009
09:31 GMT |
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With the help of the new SIMDAT project, communications and data transfers between collaborating corporations will become much easier, the researchers behind it say. Currently, a common effort of two companies can only take place after months of setting up hardware and overcoming various engineering problems. And the... |
14 December 2008
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A new SETI tool in the search for intelligent alien lifeforms has been built. It is called the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) and it has recently been powered up in its first stage configuration of 42 antennas. When complete, in 2025, it will feature the combined power of 350 such dishes. The project, financed by Paul A... |
13 November 2008
10:30 GMT |
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Unknowingly, when looking at certain stars with special features, we might be witnessing message transmission attempts from other civilizations, researchers claim. Since mankind first came up with the idea that space might be too big just for us or that maybe God hasn't wasted all the universe just on terr... |
12 September 2008
11:11 GMT |
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Third degree contact. Three words which can probably make a lot of people laugh. But this is no laughing matter; just look around you, we're not living in an isolated area, we're living in a universe, billions of light years across, with billions of galaxies and stars and most likely intelligent life as wel... |
14 March 2008
05:12 GMT |
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Recognize the guy in the picture? He is supposed to be an alien living somewhere in our galaxy, which will most likely pay us a visit in the near future with a warp capable ship, just to slaughter us like pigs while dressed in an invisibility cloak. Possible? Highly unlikely, according to planetary astronomer Dr Cha... |
13 March 2008
06:41 GMT |
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These are the questions astrophysicists are approaching at the Sound of Silence conference at the Arizona State University, after about five decades of listening to radio signals coming from outer space. Either extraterrestrials don't exists, are to far away and can't hear us, not intelligent enough to hold... |
8 February 2008
04:41 GMT |
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Well... not you specifically, just your computer! After some extensive upgrades of the Arecibo radio telescope which included, aside the first paint job in more than four decades, the installation of seven new radio receivers that allow the telescope to extend its radio spectrum to over 40 times that of the original... |
4 January 2008
05:44 GMT |
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