Help SETI Answer The Question: Are We Alone? by Carl Kruse Every year the good people at SETI @ HOME make a fundraising drive to support their efforts in tackling what is one of the great remaining questions of humanity, is there intelligent life besides us in the universe? While the answer to the question … [Read more…]
A Fantastic Time For Discovery, and for SETI by Carl Kruse The journal NATURE’s website reportedly crashed after it announced the NASA discovery of seven Earth-like planets orbiting a star near us, some 40 light years away in the Aquarius constellation. The star known as TRAPPIST-1 (Transiting Planets and Planetisimals Small Telescope) was observed by … [Read more…]
“Are we alone?” is a question all of us have wondered about. The SETI Institute has done more than wonder, listening now for more than 30 years for any radio signals in space for signs of alien intelligence. Radio signals propagate far and wide and any advanced society will have likely communicated with radio signals … [Read more…]