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Searching the Kepler Planets for Signals
May 17, 2011
"A new survey has begun looking for intelligent extraterrestrial life on the most Earth-like alien planets discovered to date."
Detecting Alien Asteroid Miners
Apr 25, 2011
"A disk of debris around a star is a likely indicator of planets. A disk of debris with atypical chemistry and density might be a remotely plausible indicator of an alien asteroid mining operation."
Lack of Funds Shuts Down SETI Telescope
Apr 25, 2011
"The hunt for extraterrestrial life just lost one of its best tools."
Asteroid Belts a Clue to Extraterrestrial Civilizations?
Mar 30, 2011
"If advanced civilisations have mined their asteroid belts, we should be able to see the evidence, argue astronomers"
Before ET, Learn to Speak with a Dolphin!
Feb 16, 2011
"If humanity someday arrives at an extraterrestrial cocktail party, will we be ready to mingle? At the Wild Dolphin Project in Jupiter, Florida, researchers practice for contact by trying to talk with dolphins."
How to Write Messages to Extraterrestrials
Feb 11, 2011
"Before trying to contact aliens, maybe we should test the messages on ourselves. In a new paper in the journal Space Policy, three alien hunters suggest designing a standard protocol for writing intelligible letters to extraterrestrials, and building a website where teams can decode candidate messages to ensure they make sense."
Extraterrestrials and Religious Belief
Jan 24, 2011
"The discovery of extraterrestrial life might not shake people's faith in their religious beliefs, but may raise other questions."
An Interview With Seth Shostak
Jan 15, 2011
"Dr. Shostak speaks about many various issues related to alien civilizations, such as the different search strategies being tried, whether we're endangering ourselves by attempting to communicate, and whether they're likely to exist in the first place."
Book Review: Confessions of an Alien Hunter
Nov 22, 2010
"For fifty years astronomers have been searching for signals from alien civilizations, without success; is it time to give up? Andre Bormanis reviews a book by a leading SETI researcher that could convince the skeptical that the search is worth the effort."
An Anniversary SETI Campaign
Nov 11, 2010
"In a gigantic cosmic redial experiment, astronomers in a dozen countries will point telescopes at some of the stars that were part of the world's first search for alien life 50 years ago."