Project Phoenix, like all SETI efforts, was a passive experiment, designed only to look for signals, not to send them. However, humankind has been unintentionally transmitting signals into space - ...
Project Phoenix was the world's most sensitive and comprehensive search for extraterrestrial intelligence that had been conducted up until approximately 2015. It was an effort to detect ...
Interstate 80 eastbound, twenty miles outside of Sacramento. It’s Tuesday, November 20, 1984; a day on which a small part of history will be created. In a folder next to me on the front seat of my ...
The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is the first radio telescope to be designed from the ground up to be used for SETI searches.Until its construction, all radio SETI efforts were dependent on the ...
Dr. Philippe Sarrazin focuses his research at SETI on the development of analytical X-ray instruments for in-situ planetary exploration. He works in close partnership with scientists in the Exobiology ...
The question “are we alone in the universe?” has fascinated people for centuries. In 1959 two Cornell University physicists described how we might answer that question through interstellar ...
In the summer of 1950, several scientists were discussing extraterrestrial intelligence over lunch. Responding to the claim that intelligent life must be commonplace throughout the universe, the Nobel ...