NASA researchers are creating "virtual planets" to simulate a plausible range of habitable planets, and to find out how they might appear to planet-finding missions of the future.
A new scale designed to give the public an expert view of any claimed detection of extraterrestrial intelligence has been launched by the International Academy of Astronautics' Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Permanent Study Group.
A Russian astronomer is taking an active approach to SETI by sending messages from Earth into space to announce the existence of the human race.
American composer, Andrew Kaiser, suggests that the structure of terrestrial music might provide clues to creating interstellar messages that could be understood by extraterrestrial intelligence. In the process, he suggests that music may provide a means of communicating "something of our consciousness that is essentially human, regardless of the civilization from which it emerges."
According to Harrison, a Professor of Psychology at the University of California at Davis, if we detect a signal from advanced extraterrestrials, there?s a good chance that the basic principles of democracy play a role in their society.
Scientists searching the stars for aliens are convinced an E.T. is out there -- it's just that they haven't had the know-how to detect such a being. But now technological advances have opened the way for scientists to check millions of previously unknown star systems, dramatically increasing the chances of finding intelligent life in outer space in the next 25 years, the world's largest private extraterrestrial agency believes.
A recent NASA sponsored conference on extraterrestrial life highlights the increasing amount of attention and funding the agency is paying to the search for extraterrestrial life.
Thousands of computers around the world have joined the search for extra-terrestrial life through a screensaver. But scientists are now wondering what we should say if ET happened to phone us.
The latest attempt to work out how much alien life is out there suggests there may be a lot more than most people thought. According to a new statistical analysis based on how quickly life got going on Earth, life will start on at least a third of Earth-like planets within a billion years of them developing suitable conditions. And with recent discoveries that planets are common around Sun-like stars, there's probably no shortage of prospective homes.
A new telescope, docked on the International Space Station, will be capable of not only probing the depths of the Universe, but also listening for the chatter of other civilizations and spotting Earth-threatening asteroids.