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SETI Institute gets $200 million to seek out evidence of alien life

Researchers are taking seriously the idea that our first evidence of life elsewhere in the cosmos may come in the form of alien technology.

Space · Nov 14, 2023

First contact with aliens could end in colonization and genocide if we don't learn from history

How humanity responds to the first contact with intelligent alien life could determine the very fate of our species. Here's what we can learn from history.

Space · Aug 14, 2023

Alien contact could be a disaster

A public ET message could initiate cascading events, including military actions to corporate resource mining

Salon · Jul 22, 2023

Crew of missing submersible near Titanic includes space tourist Hamish Harding, SETI trustee Shahzada Dawood

5 people on board a submersible are missing after diving near the Titanic ship liner on Sunday (June 18), and have only a few days of oxygen on board, multiple media reports suggest.

Space · Jun 20, 2023

A mock 'alien message' was beamed to Earth by the European Space Agency — they want you to decode it

If Earth received an extraterrestrial message, how would you interpret it? Members of the public are being encouraged by Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) to do just that.

ABC News · May 26, 2023

Arecibo Observatory: The rise, legacy, and tragic collapse of a giant

The legacy of Arecibo's nearly 60 years of astronomy research is strong, even after its loss in a dramatic 2020 collapse.

Space · Nov 9, 2022

Look! SETI astronomers just simulated what an alien message might look like

If an extraterrestrial civilization has a SETI project similar to our own, could they detect signals from Earth?

Inverse · Apr 16, 2022