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Hollywood Gets Aliens All Wrong, Famed E.T. Hunter Says

Posted 05.29.2012

By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 05/25/2012 10:14 AM EDT on SPACE.com Despite what the movies tell us, any aliens that visit Earth probably won't ...

Government Psychic Spies and Extraterrestrials

Alejandro Rojas | Posted 05.09.2012

Alejandro Rojas

In April, SRI International announced it will be taking over the management of the Allen Telescope Array, whose primary purpose is listening for signals from extraterrestrial civilizations.

Alien Life Could Exist On HOW Many Planets? Study Yields Surprising Answer

Posted 04.29.2012

By: Nola Taylor Redd Published: 04/28/2012 08:24 AM EDT on SPACE.com A new estimate of the number of habitable planets orbiting the most common ...

The UFO Bestiary

Seth Shostak | Posted 04.27.2012

Seth Shostak

This is a phenomenon worthy of attention. If aliens are really hanging out in our 'hood, it's hard to imagine any other fact more worthy of study. If not, then why does such a large fraction of the populace insist on believing they're here?

Lee Speigel

Exobots And Robonauts: The Next Wave In The Search For Extraterrestrials

HuffingtonPost.com | Lee Speigel | Posted 04.26.2012

Self-replicating robots could be the solution to making first contact with an alien civilization. These proposed exobots could efficiently explore ...

New Mars Study Suggests NASA Probes Long Ago Found Life On Red Planet

The Huffington Post | David Freeman | Posted 04.20.2012

Is there life on Mars after all? A provocative new study concludes that the twin robotic probes NASA put on Mars in 1976 may have detected signs o...

E.T. Hunters Ask You Join Search For Alien Life

Posted 03.01.2012

By: Clara Moskowitz Published: 02/29/2012 03:59 PM EST on SPACE.com Scientists need your help in the search for life beyond Earth. The SETI (Se...

SETI Institute Teams Up With Zooniverse to Empower Citizen Scientists in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

SETI Institute | Posted 04.30.2012

SETI Institute

The launch of SETI Live opens the door for anyone to help search for intelligent life on other planets. For the first time ever, data being received by the Allen Telescope Array in Hat Creek, CA will be made public so citizen scientists can scan it for potential signals.

They're Not Meat

Seth Shostak | Posted 03.28.2012

Seth Shostak

In a movie it's important to have aliens whose gestures and facial expressions can be "read" by humans. But come on! Are two eyes, four appendages and an upright posture really essential?

E.T. Hunters Get Signals from Space: What's the Source?

The Huffington Post | Travis Korte | Posted 01.09.2012

Don't start making tinfoil hats yet. The 12 intriguing signals published this week by SETI researchers at UC Berkeley weren't created by aliens, despi...

PHOTOS: Messages From Earth

The Huffington Post | Travis Korte | Posted 01.05.2012

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is usually about collecting data. Researchers look at broad ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum...

Lee Speigel

White House: There's No Evidence Of ETs

HuffingtonPost.com | Lee Speigel | Posted 01.07.2012

There's no evidence of any extraterrestrial life and "no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public's eye." ...

White House: The Truth Is Not 'Out There'

Posted 01.07.2012

Alien lifeforms have not contacted Earth yet, the White House claimed over the weekend in response to petitions asking for information on supposed hum...

Life at the SETI Institute: Dr. Gerry Harp -- Deciphering Celestial Signals in a New Way

SETI Institute | Posted 12.27.2011

SETI Institute

By Dr. Gerry Harp, Senior Astrophysicist, Center for SETI Research, SETI Institute, and Gail Jacobs Trained as a quantum mechanic, Dr. Gerry Harp was...

Secret Passages and the Invisible Universe

Zoe P. Strassfield | Posted 12.21.2011

Zoe P. Strassfield

Events of October 19, 2011 When I was younger, I used to watch a show called Cardcaptors in which the main character was frequently advised to "Expec...

Life at the SETI Institute: Dr. Jill Tarter -- The Search for Cosmic Company

SETI Institute | Posted 12.20.2011

SETI Institute

By Gail Jacobs Astronomer Dr. Jill Tarter is Director of the SETI Institute's Center for SETI Research, and also holder of the Bernard M. Oliver C...

Life at the SETI Institute: DIY -- Do your own SETI searches with setiQuest Data and Software

SETI Institute | Posted 11.28.2011

SETI Institute

By Dr. Gerry Harp, an astrophysicist at the SETI Institute. Figure 1: A waterfall plot. This shows the signal as a function of frequency (increas...

Boosting The Search For Aliens In The Universe

AP | Posted 10.13.2011

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- An array of 42 radio telescopes seeking signs of intelligent life in the universe will continue that work after private donor...

Jodie Foster Helps Real-Life Search For ETs

Posted 10.12.2011

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP / Huffington Post) -- Actress Jodie Foster is among the many donors who helped raise funds to continue the search for alien ...

E.T., Phone the Bay Area

Seth Shostak | Posted 09.11.2011

Seth Shostak

What most people don't know is that if we make contact with real extraterrestrials, the encounter is likely to be thanks to a handful of Bay Area scientists.

UFO Activists Declare First Ever 'World Disclosure Day' (VIDEO)

AOL Weird News | David Moye | Posted 11.15.2011

On July 8, 1947, Air Force Gen. Roger Ramey held a press event at the 8th Army Air Force headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas, in which he allegedly chan...

Scientist: Humans To Encounter Aliens By 2031

Posted 08.28.2011

A top Russian astronomer claimed Monday that humans will encounter extraterrestrial life by 2031. "Life exists on other planets and we will find i...

Lee Speigel

Join The Hunt For Extraterrestrials: Become a SETIstar

HuffingtonPost.com | Lee Speigel | Posted 11.15.2011

Science wants to make you a star. To be more exact, scientists at the SETI Institute in California are reaching out to the public for donations to con...

SETI Suspends Its Search For Alien Life

AP | Posted 06.26.2011

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Strapped government budgets may be affecting more than life on Earth. Astronomers at the SETI Institute in Northern Californ...

A Bucketful of Worlds

Seth Shostak | Posted 05.25.2011

Seth Shostak

It's raining planets. Members of the science team for NASA's Kepler telescope announced the tentative discovery of more than 1,200 worlds orbiting distant stars. Of these, approximately four dozen are candidates for being Earth's doppelgangers.