SETI

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Finding Phosphine on Venus – and the Prospect of Alien Life

Laura McKemmish, Brendan Paul Burns and Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer 18/09/2020

The discovery that the atmosphere of Venus absorbs a...

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Scientists Are Searching Space for Extraterrestrial Viruses

Jordan McKaig 10/09/2020

Astrovirology could provide an insight into how viruses helped...

NASA Kepler, Kepler space telescope, red dwarf stars, exoplanets, NASA Tess, Kepler K2 mission, transit method, radial velocity method, exobiology, Goldilocks zone, habitable zone, SETI, Milky Way galaxy,

Farewell to Kepler, the First Great Planet-Hunter

Prakash Chandra 19/11/2018

Each new discovery Kepler made took us a step...

An artist's impression of Tabby's star. Credit: NASA/Wikimedia Commons

WTF: The Story of the Strangest Star We’ve Known

Sandhya Ramesh 20/09/2017

There’s clearly something mysterious going on. We don’t know...

The Parkes Observatory, New South Wales. Credit: CSIRO/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0

Telescopes Pick up Strange Radio Signals Three Billion Years Old

Prakash Chandra 06/09/2017

What makes the latest FRBs so dramatic is that...

A photograph of Jerry Ehman's notes, with his "Wow" written next to data indicating the strange strength of the signal. Credit: tonynetone/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Listen: How a 72-Second Burst of Radio Waves Stimulated Our Curiosity About Aliens

Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian 19/10/2016

Astronomers hope to find the mystery behind the source...

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A Message From Space or an ‘Alien’ False Alarm?

Mark Gallaway 03/09/2016

There has been much speculation about what the source...