Tag: SETI
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Those mysterious bright spots on Ceres? Probably salty ice, scientists say
This color-coded representation of Ceres’ Occator Crater shows differences in surface composition, highlight bright patches inside the crater. (Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA) For months, scientists have puzzled over weirdly bright spots of material shining on the asteroid Ceres, but now they say the spots are probably made of salty…
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‘Alien megastructure’ update: SETI telescope detects no sign of E.T., but search goes on
The Allen Telescope Array looks for alien radio signals. (Credit: Seth Shostak / SETI Institute) The SETI Institute says it hasn’t detected any alien radio signals coming from a star whose light seems to be dimming in a weird way, but it’s too early to determine what kind of phenomenon is behind the pattern. The star,…
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Alien megastructures? SETI Institute’s Allen Telescope Array targets weirdly winking star
The antennas of the Allen Telescope Array in California is collecting signals from a strange star known as KIC 8462852. (Credit: SETI Institute) One of the premier telescope arrays in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, is focusing its antennas on an anomalously blinking star, thanks in part to speculation that the star called KIC 8462852 could…
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Looking for ET in the waters of Mars and Europa
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION India’s Mars Orbiter Mission captured this view of the red planet shortly after it arrived in 2014. Credit: ISRO The discovery of intermittent flows of liquid water on Mars, announced with great fanfare Monday, makes the red planet the leading candidate for the near-term discovery of extraterrestrial life…
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$100 million initiative to search for ET
Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, Astronomer Royal Martin Rees, SETI pioneer Frank Drake, and Ann Druyan, widow of late astronomer Carl Sagan who helped craft interstellar messages carried aboard NASA’s Voyager probes. Credit: Getty Images Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner is pledging $100 million to fund the most sophisticated search for extraterrestrials ever…
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Stephen Hawking and Russian tycoon Yuri Milner kick off new search for E.T.
Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner. (Photo courtesy of Hawking Center for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge.) Russian high-tech billionaire Yuri Milner teamed up with the world’s most famous scientist, British physicist Stephen Hawking, to announce a new $100 million effort to detect signals from alien civilizations. The Breakthrough Listen initiative was unveiled Monday during a webcast from…