For more than 60 years, scientists have been searching the cosmos for possible signs of radio transmission that would indicate the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI). In that time, the ...

Humans have been searching for signs of extraterrestrial life for more than a century, funding international efforts to search for signals from distant planets, launch probes, and build bigger and ...

How can star populations help astronomers re-evaluate the search for intelligent extraterrestrial life, also called ...

As part of WIRED25, WIRED's 25th anniversary celebration in San Francisco, Jill Tarter, author of "The 21st Century: The Century of Biology on Earth and Beyond," and astrobiologist Margaret Turnbull, ...

I had the opportunity to smoke a small sample of Cut & Dry cannabis recently and wanted dig deeper into the brand. What follows is an interview with Seti, which is his real name, like Madonna or Sting ...

The Seti Institute, an organisation which searches the cosmos for extraterrestrial intelligence, is helping to make a library specifically for aliens. The library is Seti’s response to the Great ...

LaserSETI is the SETI Institute’s crowdfunding campaign to fund a project to place specialized cameras around the globe to look for laser flashes from deep space. It’s the first project to scan the ...

has had to fund its experiments with donor dollars, not government largesse. As a recent example, private philanthropy has accounted for most of the monies used to build the first stage of the Allen ...

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Imagine that you live alone in a dark, hilly wood that stretches for miles in all directions. You know your own forest well, having hiked and surveyed it as far as your feet and your tools allow. In ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the history of science and exploration. SETI@Home gave rise to an active online community of volunteers and enthusaists.

A star system 94 light-years away is in the spotlight as a possible candidate for intelligent inhabitants, thanks to the discovery of a radio signal by a group of Russian astronomers. HD 164595, a ...