The SETI Institute awarded the first Frank Drake Postdoctoral Fellowship to Dr. Anastasia Yanchilina. Yanchilina will focus on distinguishing biosignatures from false positives across space and time. Her research combines […]
Frank Drake
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Searching For Extraterrestrial Intelligence Across A Century
Exobiology is a burgeoning research field. There is a realistic prospect that in a decade or two we will have the capability to detect biosignatures – non-equilibrium atmospheric chemistry, vegetation […]
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The Last Arecibo Message
The Arecibo Message was a brief binary-encoded communication transmitted into space from the Arecibo Observatory on November 16, 1974, intended to demonstrate human technological prowess.
Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Intelligence & Language, Interstellar, Origin & Evolution of Life, People Of Astrobiology, Press Release, SETI & Technosignatures, Stellar Cartography
A New Model Calculates The Chances Of Intelligent Life Elsewhere
The chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe – and in any hypothetical ones beyond it – can be estimated by a new theoretical model which has echoes of […]
Posted inAstrobiology (general), Atmospheres, Climate, Weather, Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Habitable Zones, Intelligence & Language, Origin & Evolution of Life, Press Release, SETI & Technosignatures, Societal Issues
Geoscientists Dig Into Why We May Be Alone In The Milky Way (Tectonics)
New research by University of Texas at Dallas geoscientist Dr. Robert Stern and a colleague suggests a geological explanation for why conclusive evidence for advanced extraterrestrial (ET) civilizations has not […]
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Frank Drake 1930-2022
SETI Institute: “So many scientists at the SETI Institute and around the world, were inspired to follow their careers because of Frank Drake. Frank not only left his mark on […]