Instructional Video2:22
Curated Video

The Scientific Life

12th - Higher Ed
Astronomer Jill Tarter, Director of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute, describes the allure of the scientific life.
Instructional Video1:55
Curated Video

Radio Intelligence

12th - Higher Ed
Astronomer Jill Tarter, Director of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute, describes the details of the search for extraterrestrial life using radio waves.
Instructional Video4:40
Curated Video

Perfect Timing

12th - Higher Ed
SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) astronomer and former longtime research director Jill Tarter describes the history of scientific searches for extraterrestrial life and how she became involved shortly after completing her...
Instructional Video6:50
AllTime 10s

What If Aliens Landed On Earth? - Alternate Reality

12th - Higher Ed
If aliens bothered to visit our increasingly destroyed planet, what would actually happen?
Podcast23:30
NASA

Gravity Assist: If They Call, Will We Listen? The Search for Technosignatures

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Jason Wright, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State, has been thinking about the different technosignatures we could pick up using the telescopes we already have, and the telescopes that we could develop in the future.
Instructional Video4:58
CuriosaMente

¿Existen los extraterrestres?

9th - 12th
¿Estamos solos en el universo? ¿Son ciertos los videos de ovnis? ¿Qué dice la ciencia acerca de la vida alienígena?

La pregunta de si estamos solos en el universo ha intrigado a la humanidad durante mucho tiempo. La ciencia ofrece...
Instructional Video2:16
Curated Video

La paradoja de Fermi - LPDF1

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Soledad galáctica.
Instructional Video1:01
Next Animation Studio

SETI and National Radio Astronomy Observatory search for extraterrestrial life

12th - Higher Ed
National Radio Astronomy Observatory will turn the Very Large Array’s 27 telescopes to scan for signs of alien life in 75 percent of the night sky. <br/>
Instructional Video4:00
Curated Video

The Search for Extraterrestrial Life: A Brief History of SETI

Pre-K - Higher Ed
This video provides a brief overview of the history and ongoing efforts of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). It highlights the curiosity of scientists and amateur enthusiasts in seeking out intelligent life beyond our...
Instructional Video11:52
Professor Dave Explains

Astrobiology: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life

9th - Higher Ed
How many movies have you seen about aliens? Are any of them realistic? Does intelligent life exist elsewhere in the universe or are we totally alone? Both options are rather terrifying, frankly. But there are scientists that spend their...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Are We Alone?

9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from NOVA features a variety of scientific perspectives on the age old question, "Are we alone in the universe?" Animations make vivid the improbability that we could intercept a radio wave signaling extra...
Instructional Video
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Desktop Diaries: Jill Tarter

9th - 10th
As the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute's first employee, Tarter has accumulated E.T.-themed office ornaments for the last 30 years -- including a bottle of wine to be opened "only upon detection of...
Audio
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Hello, Is There Anybody Out There?

9th - 10th
An interview with Jill Tarter, who works for the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute looking for evidence of life in outer space. Aired May 10, 2014 [24:20 min]
Audio
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Happy Birthday, Seti@home

9th - 10th
An interview with scientist Dan Werthimer about the SETI@home project which started in 1999. Volunteers around the world use their own computers to help search for extraterrestrial communications. Aired May 22, 2009 [10:37]