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Allen Telescope Array begins all-sky surveys
May 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- With commissioning of the 42 radio dishes of the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) nearly complete, UC Berkeley astronomers are now embarking on several major radio astronomy projects, including daily surveys of ...
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SETI@home project celebrates 10th anniversary, though no ETs
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's largest and longest-running volunteer computing project, SETI@home, celebrates its tenth anniversary this month with 140,000 participants and 235,000 computers powering the search ...
Cosmologist Paul Davies explores notion of 'alien' life on Earth
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 15, 2009 |
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Astrobiologists have often pondered "life as we do not know it" in the context of extraterrestrial life, says Paul Davies, an internationally acclaimed theoretical physicist and cosmologist at Arizona State University. "But," ...
Team hopes to use new technology to search for ETs
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Jun 04, 2008 |
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A Johns Hopkins astronomer is a member of a team briefing fellow scientists about plans to use new technology to take advantage of recent, promising ideas on where to search for possible extraterrestrial intelligence ...
Life-Probing Instrument Preparing for Mission to Mars
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 29, 2008 |
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A new life-detecting instrument is preparing for a mission to the Red Planet. The Urey: Mars Organic and Oxidant Detector instrument, developed by a scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC ...
New images yield clues to seasons of Uranus
Oct 14, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- With an 84-year orbit around the sun, it isn't often that planetary scientists have an opportunity to observe the change of seasons on Uranus, a planet some 19 times farther from the sun than ...
SETI Sets Its Sights On M Dwarfs
Nov 21, 2005 |
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Scientists have been searching actively for signs of intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations for nearly half a century. Their main approach has been to point radio telescopes toward target stars and to "listen" for electronic ...
Scientists: 'We'll detect an extraterrestrial transmission within 20 years'
Dec 23, 2004 |
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The SETI Institute predicts that we'll detect an extraterrestrial transmission within twenty years. If that turns out to be true, it'll probably be the folks at UC Berkeley's Hat Creek radio observatory who ...
Extremophile Hunt Begins
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Feb 08, 2008 |
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A team of scientists has just left the country to explore a very strange lake in Antarctica; it is filled with, essentially, extra-strength laundry detergent. No, the researchers haven't spilled coffee on ...
Hubble Captures a Rare Eclipse on Uranus
Aug 31, 2006 |
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This image is a never-before-seen astronomical alignment of a moon traversing the face of Uranus, and its accompanying shadow. The white dot near the center of Uranus’ blue-green disk is the icy moon Ariel. ...
Nearby star should harbor detectable, Earth-like planets
Mar 07, 2008 |
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A rocky planet similar to Earth may be orbiting one of our nearest stellar neighbors and could be detected using existing techniques, according to a new study led by astronomers at the University of California, ...
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