A team of chemists and astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the field of astrochemistry: the identification of cyanocoronene, the largest polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) ever detected in space. […]
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Posted inAstrobiology (general), Astronomy & Telescopes, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Intelligence & Language, SETI & Technosignatures, Status Report
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 […]
Posted inAstrochemistry, Astrogeology, Astronomy & Telescopes, Biochemistry & Organic Chemistry, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Interstellar, Press Release
Molecules That Store Carbon Discovered In A Distant Interstellar Cloud
The discovery of pyrene derivatives in a distant interstellar cloud may help to reveal how our own solar system formed.
Posted inEducation and Outreach, Intelligence & Language, Press Release, SETI & Technosignatures, Societal Issues
First Contact: Global Team Simulates Message From Extraterrestrial Intelligence To Earth
What would happen if we received a message from an extraterrestrial civilization?
Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes, Citizen Science / Open Science, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Press Release, SETI & Technosignatures
A Green Bank Telescope Search For Narrowband Technosignatures Between 1.1-1.9 GHz During 12 Kepler Planetary Transits
A growing avenue for determining the prevalence of life beyond Earth is to search for “technosignatures” from extraterrestrial intelligences/agents.
Posted inAstrobiology (general), Astronomy & Telescopes, Science Fiction, SETI & Technosignatures, Societal Issues
Going Off Source: Time Away With SETI In West Virginia
Keith Cowing: 27 years ago I made a trip to West Virginia to hang out with SETI researcher Jill Tarter and see how she searched the skies for evidence of […]
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Green Bank Observatory Inaugurated
Today astronomers celebrate the inauguration of the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia, home to the 100-meter Green Bank Telescope, one of the world’s most powerful astronomical instruments. Formerly a […]