The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) began decades ago as an effort to pick up radio signals from distant civilizations. The effort was centered at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia and was by today's standards quite rudimentary. A much broader search for distant radio signals remains very much at the core of SETI …
Breakthrough Listen Searches The Crowded Center of the Milky Way for Possible Signals From Intelligent Beings
Searching for technologically advanced civilizations inhabiting distant exoplanets is the astrobiological equivalent of swinging for the fences. While much of the search of extraterrestrial life is now focused on microbes and chemical biosignatures in exoplanet atmospheres that would likely be byproducts of life, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (or SETI) takes a very different approach. …
Big News for SETI Enthusiasts
It has been almost 60 years now that scientists -- a first a few intrepid souls and now many more -- have been searching the skies for radio signals that just might be coming from other advanced, technological civilizations. There have been some intriguing anomalies that created great interest, but nothing has to date survived …
Many Worlds 