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Hey ET, Are You Out There? Kepler Helps SETI Tune In

The needle-in-a-haystack search for extraterrestrial signals has narrowed a bit, thanks to NASA's Kepler spacecraft. Scientists announced that, of the 1,235 candidate planets discovered by Kepler, 54 of them were in what's known as the Goldilocks zone, a region close enough to its home sun where a planet may harbor...

Stephen Hawking Wouldn't Talk to an ET, Would You? [VIDEO]

Hardly a day passes without someone, somewhere claiming to have seen a UFO. In just the last year, Chinese airports were closed down -- not once, but several times -- after the sighting of an unidentified flying object. This week, we speak with Space.com's Dave Brody and AOL's resident ufologist Lee Speigel, to get their...

UFOs Help Innovative Thinkers Look to the Future

Where should forward-thinkers look when they seek innovative ideas? Perhaps to someone -- or something -- that's more innovative than they are. From Saturday to Tuesday, more than 100 of the world's leaders in business, politics, education, sports, entertainment, the environment and technology are gathering for a...

Voyager 1 Heading for Interstellar Overdrive: 5 Facts About the Mission So Far

(Dec. 14) -- "Infinity and beyond" has never seemed closer. The Voyager 1 spacecraft has now crossed into an area at the edge of the solar system so distant that solar winds don't blow there, indicating that it should reach interstellar space in about four years, NASA announced Monday. "When I realized that we were...

NASA's Arsenic-Eating Bug Press Conference [LIVE BLOG]

(Dec. 2) -- The time has finally come for NASA's heavily anticipated press conference, which has generated quite the Internet buzz since the space agency released an enticingly ambiguous press briefing previewing the announcement of an "astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial...

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06/02/12 New targeted ET hunt fails to find alien signals Source: New Kerala Dot Com The hunt for other intelligent civilisations has a new technique in its arsenal, but its first use has turned up no signs of alien broadcasts, it has been revealed.
05/31/12 SETI's search for alien life is in trouble Source: ZDNet (Jill Tarter ponders the uncertain future for Alien search project SETI.)
05/31/12 SpaceX cargo ship leaves orbit on way back to Earth Source: PhysOrg.com 14 hours ago Forewarned, i'm super layman.
05/30/12 Aliens may not be so interested in enslaving us after... Source: The Globe and Mail - Toronto ON - Canada "Despite what the movies tell us, any aliens that visit Earth probably won't want to enslave or vaporize us, veteran E.T. hunter Jill Tarter says," reports Space.com. "Hostile aliens abound at the multiplex these days, terrorizing our planet in films such as Battleship and Men in Black 3. But science fiction is probably far from reality in its depiction of Earth-contacting extraterrestrials, said Dr. Tarter, who announced ... (May 22) that she's retiring after spending 35 years scanning the heavens for signals from intelligent life beyond Earth [as director of the Center for SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence)]. 'If aliens were able to visit Earth, that would mean they would have technological capabilities sophisticated enough not to need slaves, food or other planets.
05/29/12 Forget 'Men in Black 3': Why aliens won't attack Earth Source: The Christian Science Monitor Despite what the movies tell us, any aliens that visit Earth probably won't want to enslave or vaporize us, veteran E.T. hunter Jill Tarter says.

Background on extraterrestrial life

Extraterrestrial life (from the Latin words: extra ["beyond", or "not of"] and‎ ["of or belonging to Earth"]) is defined as life that does not originate from Earth.

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