SETI

After hibernating its Allen Telescope Array back in April 2011 due to lack of funding, the SETI institute has announced it has now secured the funding to restart the ATA and resume search for extraterrestrial life. The telescope array consists of 42 20-feet-wide telescopes located some 300 miles north of San Francisco. Originally funded largely by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who donated $25 million to the project, the ATA had to go into hibernation after state budget cuts affected the...Read Full Story

SETI new funding is derived in part from the public , while others come from the United States Air Force for space programs their vigilance . World News- After stopping the search for aliens , now the Search for Extra -Terrestrial Intelligence ( SETI ) continue the search. SETI Allen Telescope Array halt operations in April due to lack of funding . SETI now announced that they have secure financial condition and resumes the search for aliens through a telescope Allen Telescope Array ( ATA...Read Full Story

SETI's Allen Telescope Array, Hat Creek, California. ANDY FLEMING reports on a reprieve for the multi million dollar Allen Telescope Array and the SETI Institute's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Some readers may be aware that mankind's enterprise to seek out other intelligent life in the cosmos, SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) had its plug pulled earlier this year, as reported here . Well the good news is that thousands of people thought that the search...Read Full Story

SETI's Allen Telescope Array, Hat Creek, California. ANDY FLEMING reports on a reprieve for the multi million dollar Allen Telescope Array and the SETI Institute's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Some readers may be aware that mankind's enterprise to seek out other intelligent life in the cosmos, SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) had its plug pulled earlier this year, as reported here . Well the good news is that thousands of people thought that the search...Read Full Story

By Dr. Gerry Harp , Senior Astrophysicist, Center for SETI Research , SETI Institute , and Gail Jacobs Trained as a quantum mechanic, Dr. Gerry Harp was deeply interested in possibilities for using the multiple telescopes of the Allen Telescope Array to generate steerable "beams" on the sky - beams that could be far smaller than any single antenna could produce. Such beams don't emit anything, but work in reverse by capturing only energy that comes from the sky in a certain direction. Gerry...Read Full Story

Remember a while back when we wrote about the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence’s (SETI) Allen Telescope Array (ATA) was shut down due to lack of funding? It seems the government wasn’t keen on supporting the search for our interstellar neighbors, so SETI turned to you for help. Guess what guys…we did it! The Allen Array is back in business! View full post on DVICERead Full Story

LOS ANGELES ( Reuters ) - A California institute plans to reboot its listening post for intelligent life in space, with private donations to replace government cutbacks. Back in April, due to a lack of funding, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence ( SETI ) Institute was forced to shut down its $30 million radio telescope array designed to hear potential signals from aliens -- if they exist. But officials with the nonprofit institute in northern California 's Mountain View appealed for...Read Full Story

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI) has been resurrected by financial donations from Academy Award-winning actor Jodie Foster and thousands of SETI fans. The Mountain View, California scientific nonprofit organization had shut down its Allen Telescope Array due to cutbacks in government spending. Jodie Foster, star of the blockbuster film “Contact” , and Apollo 8 crew member Bill Anders spearheaded the wave of contributions that have now given SETI a second life...Read Full Story

Now that NASA’s Kepler space telescope has identified 1,235 possible planets around stars in our galaxy, astronomers at the University of California, Berkeley, are aiming a radio telescope at the most Earth-like of these worlds to see if they can detect signals from an advanced civilization. The search began on Saturday, May 8, when the  Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope  – the largest steerable radio telescope in the world – dedicated an hour to eight stars with possible planets. Once UC...Read Full Story

www.FilmBlog.In Nearly 14 years after starring in the sci-flick Contact as a scientist/astronomer working for SETI (The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute), Jodie Foster might be closer to aliens than we all thought. Foster is among thousands who raised $200,000 to re-open the Allen Telescope Array (ATA), which are 42 radio dishes at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory ( 290 miles northeast of San Francisco, California). The telescopes search space for potential extraterrestrial...Read Full Story