Can AI Help Find Life on Mars or Icy Worlds?
Wouldn’t discovering life on other worlds be made easier if we knew the exact locations to search? However, opportunities to collect samples or access remote…
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Stunning Discovery: Equatorial Relict Glacier Uncovered on Mars
The preservation of water ice at shallow depths and low latitudes on Mars would have significant implications for both scientific research and human exploration. Scientists…
The Search for Extraterrestrial Life: Machine Learning Uncovers Previously Undetected Signals of Interest
Deep learning techniques uncovered previously unnoticed signals of interest in analyzed datasets. The search for technologically advanced extraterrestrial life raises the question, “where are they?”…
Do You Speak Extraterrestrial?
A new research hub examines how to respond to life beyond Earth. What does humanity do when we realize we aren’t alone in the universe? A…
New Research Indicates That Mars Was Capable of Supporting Life
Early Mars might have been a warm version of modern Titan and at least as promising, if not more promising, as a location for the…
Potentially Hazardous 4,000 Year Comets Can Cause Meteor Showers on Earth
Researchers report that they can detect showers from the debris in the path of comets that pass close to Earth orbit and return as infrequently…
Asteroid That Hit Botswana in 2018 Likely Originated From Vesta
An international team of researchers searched for pieces of a small asteroid tracked in space and then observed to impact Botswana on June 2, 2018….
Tracing a Modern Biosphere on Mars: Is There Life on Mars Today – And Where?
Challenging assumptions about the possibility of modern life on Mars. In a comment recently published in Nature Astronomy, Dr. Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl…
SETI Researchers Have a New Theory About What Is Causing Landslides on the Surface of Mars
A team of researchers led by SETI Institute Senior Research Scientist Janice Bishop, a member of the SETI Institute NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) team, has…
Hunt the Skies for New Worlds Beyond Our Solar System From Home With NASA’s Planet Patrol
Help NASA find exoplanets, worlds beyond our solar system, through a newly launched website called Planet Patrol. This citizen science platform allows members of the…
Looking for Aliens Who Might Be Looking for Us – Advanced Civilizations May Exist in Our Galaxy
Data from a massive search for cosmic radio emission released February 14, 2020, by the Breakthrough Listen Initiative — the most comprehensive survey yet of…
Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Breakthrough Listen Releases 2 Petabytes of Data From SETI Survey
Analysis of a portion of the data looks at nearby stars that could see Earth transiting sun. On Friday (February 14, 2020), the Breakthrough Listen…
Artificial Intelligence Helps Track Mysterious Cosmic Radio Bursts
Artificial intelligence is invading many fields, most recently astronomy and the search for intelligent life in the universe, or SETI. Researchers at Breakthrough Listen, a…
SETI Homes In On Fast Radio Burst Source FRB 121102
Recent observations of a mysterious and distant object that emits intermittent bursts of radio waves so bright that they’re visible across the universe provide new…
Cassini Reveals Moons of Saturn May Be Only 100 Million Years Old
A newly published study reveals that Saturn’s moon Rhea and all other moons and rings closer to Saturn may be only 100 million years old….
SETI Scientist Believes We Will Find Life in Space This Century
The senior astronomer at the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence Institute believes that researchers will find life in space in this century. Are we alone in…
Old Hubble Images Reveal Neptune’s “Lost” Moon
Using new techniques to suppress Neptune’s glare, astronomers view Neptune’s innermost moon for the first time since it was discovered by Voyager 1989. Neptune’s tiny,…
