Hitting the Books: What exactly did Jodi Foster hear in 'Contact'?
A real life astronomer breaks down what the 1997 film got right, and wrong.
SETI
Without the Arecibo telescope, our search for intelligent life is hamstrung
It’s the end of an era and we’re all a little poorer for it.
How to guesstimate the number of alien civilizations in a galaxy
All it takes is the Drake Equation and a bunch of logical assumptions.
China's giant radio telescope will start searching for aliens in September
FAST will scan the skies for life in addition to its usual exploration.
SETI@Home ends its crowdsourced search for alien life after 21 years
Why not donate to Folding@Home instead?
Breakthrough searches for signs of alien life in ultra-fast light pulses
The powerful VERITAS telescope array will help look for extraterrestrials.
Cryptocurrency mining is hampering the search for alien life
Miners are buying up GPUs that SETI needs to expand its monitoring stations.
Arecibo is monitoring potentially hazardous near-earth asteroid
The world's second-largest radio telescope is back online after Hurricane Maria.
Scientists want to send a telescope to photograph Alpha Centauri
Project Blue is backed by SETI and UMass Lowell, but need cash from generous millionaires to make it happen.
SETI's 'unusual signal' most likely came from Earth
Additional analysis has ruled out the possibility that it was sent by an alien civilization.
SETI researchers investigate an unusual signal
It's probably not a hint of aliens, but it's strong enough to raise eyebrows.
SETI to begin searching older star systems for sentient life
The institute will now survey red dwarfs as well Suns like ours.
