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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 ...
SETI@home project celebrates 10th anniversary, though no ETs
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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 ...
SETI@home completes a decade of ET search
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 01, 2009 |
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The SETI@home project, which has involved the worldwide public in a search for radio-wave evidence of life outside Earth, marks its 10th anniversary on May 17, 2009.
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E.T. not likely to have human-like intelligence: Astronomer
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 12, 2008 |
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Extraterrestrials will probably never ‘phone’ Earth in a way we’d understand as they’re unlikely to have evolved human-like intelligence – but that doesn’t mean we should give up the search for life beyond our planet, an ...
SETI@home ramps up to analyze more data in search of extraterrestrial intelligence
Jan 02, 2008 |
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The longest-running search for radio signals from alien civilizations is getting a burst of new data from an upgraded Arecibo telescope, which means the SETI@home project needs more desktop computers to help crunch the data.
SETI Astronomer Envisions Technology Capable of Receiving ET Signals by 2032
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Nov 14, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- SETI, (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Senior Astronomer Seth Shostak and host of the weekly radio show "Are We Alone," predicted during a recent conference in San Francisco that ...
Eavesdropping on the Universe
Jan 08, 2007 |
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Astronomers have proposed an improved method of searching for intelligent extraterrestrial life using instruments like one now under construction in Australia. The Low Frequency Demonstrator (LFD) of the Mileura ...
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 ...
NASA and Google Launch Virtual Exploration of Mars
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Feb 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA and Google announced Monday the release of a new Mars mode in Google Earth that brings to everyone's desktop a high-resolution, three-dimensional view of the Red Planet.
Dedicated SETI Optical Telescope Starts Work
Apr 17, 2006 |
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The Planetary Society dedicated its new optical telescope Tuesday in a new dedicated effort to search for light signals from alien civilizations. Its 72-inch primary mirror is the largest of any optical telescope in the United ...
Life-Probing Instrument Preparing for Mission to Mars
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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 ...
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 ...
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