Girls grades K-12 can earn their Space Science badges thanks to “ Reaching for the Stars: NASA Science for Girl Scouts” supported by NASA Science under ...
Recipient of one of the 2004 Grants in Honor of Professor Henri Chretien (AAS, September 2004) In April 2007, the asteroid numbered 1989SO8 was named “(6639) Marchis” in honor of his work in the field ...
The question “are we alone in the universe?” has fascinated people for centuries. In 1959 two Cornell University physicists described how we might answer that question through interstellar ...
Project Phoenix was the world's most sensitive and comprehensive search for extraterrestrial intelligence that had been conducted up until approximately 2015. It was an effort to detect ...
Avery Wang is best known as Founder and Chief Scientist at Shazam, where he was the primary inventor of the core technologies. He was instrumental in growing the company from a tiny Matlab demo in a ...
SETI is a generic acronym that stands for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Scientists doing SETI experiments are looking for proof – not merely of life elsewhere – but of intelligent ...
The SETI Institute was incorporated as a 501(c)3 California Non-Profit Corporation on November 20, 1984. The inaugural officers of the Institute were CEO Thomas Pierson and SETI scientist Jill Tarter.
In 1960, radio astronomer Frank D. Drake, then at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Green Bank, West Virginia, carried out humanity's first modern attempt to detect interstellar radio ...