SETI

Search for Alien Engineering Comes Up Dry – So Far

Greg Schnippel — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:02:58 -0800

A search for colossal feats of alien engineering called "Dyson spheres" has so far found no convincing candidates within 1000 light years of Earth, but Richard Carrigan, formerly with the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, has combed through data from the Infrared Astronomical Satellite and has identified 17 possible "spheres," four of which seem most promising.

Carbon Dioxide Detected on Faraway World

Greg Schnippel — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:09:47 -0800

Carbon dioxide, a potential fingerprint of life, has been discovered for the first time in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star.

Scientist Develops Program to Understand Alien Languages

Greg Schnippel — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:37:04 -0700

A computer programme which could help identify and even translate messages from aliens in outer space has been developed by a British scientist.

Even if there are extra terrestrials are one day discovered, scientists fear their alien tongue may make it impossible to understand them.

But John Elliott of Leeds Metropolitan University believes he has come up with software which at least will decipher the structure of their language - and be the first step in understanding what they are saying.

ET could 'Tickle' Stars to Create Galactic Internet

Greg Schnippel — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:38:47 -0700

Advanced extraterrestrial civilisations may be sending signals through space by "tickling" stars, new research suggests. The signalling would be the galactic equivalent of the internet.

"If it exists, it might be revealed by an analysis of already-existing stellar data," says John Learned of the University of Hawaii in Honolulu.

Learned and his colleagues have focused their attention on stars that vary regularly in brightness. Crucially, these "Cepheid variables" are so luminous they can be seen as far away as 60 million light years.

First Space Ad Targets Hungry Aliens

Greg Schnippel — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:35:02 -0700

The Dread Planet

Greg Schnippel — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:35:01 -0700

Intelligence: A Rare Cosmic Commodity

Greg Schnippel — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:35:00 -0700

New evidence for extragalactic life-forming matter

Greg Schnippel — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:34:57 -0700

Time capsule to be beamed from Mexican pyramid

Greg Schnippel — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:29:36 -0700

Looking for alien lasers, not radios

Greg Schnippel — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:29:28 -0700