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Voyager and Drift Lines
Astronomer Jill Tarter, Director of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute, describes how signals from the Voyager probe can illustrate how we need to take the earth's rotation into account when searching the skies.
Curated Video
The Scientific Life
Astronomer Jill Tarter, Director of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute, describes the allure of the scientific life.
Curated Video
Radio Intelligence
Astronomer Jill Tarter, Director of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute, describes the details of the search for extraterrestrial life using radio waves.
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Perfect Timing
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...
AllTime 10s
What If Aliens Landed On Earth? - Alternate Reality
If aliens bothered to visit our increasingly destroyed planet, what would actually happen?
NASA
Gravity Assist: If They Call, Will We Listen? The Search for Technosignatures
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.
CuriosaMente
¿Existen los extraterrestres?
¿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...
Next Animation Studio
SETI and National Radio Astronomy Observatory search for extraterrestrial life
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.
Curated Video
The Search for Extraterrestrial Life: A Brief History of SETI
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...
Professor Dave Explains
Astrobiology: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life
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...
Curated Video
Neil deGrasse Tyson Doesn't Think Contact Will Happen in 50 Years
Will Space contact happen? Neil deGrasse Tyson doesn't think contact will happen in 50 years. Hear why on Cheddar.
Curated Video
What the most recent flight ban means for Canadians in India
As Canadians in India react to news they may now be stuck there for a month due to a ban on direct flights from India and Pakistan to Canada, one expert says the attempt to keep more cases of COVID-19 from being imported may not be good...
Curated Video
The Search For Life Beyond Earth
For as long as we’ve been gazing up at the stars we’ve wondered whether someone out there may be gazing back.
Bloomberg
Who's Winning The New Space Race?
Apr.27 -- Bloomberg tech editor Nate Lanxon sat down with Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute Dr Pamela L Gay to discuss who will make first contact with extraterrestrial life and unpack whether some of the fundamental...
Curated Video
Congress Has Hearing On UFOs, But No Confirmation Of Extraterrestrials
Congress held its first hearing on unidentified flying objects in half a century, but they are digging more into "unidentified aerial phenomena."
Bloomberg
These Researchers Are Getting Us Closer to Making Contact with Aliens
Oct.28 -- For half a century, researchers have been scanning the sky for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence, so far to no avail. But with regular discoveries of new planets around distant stars, the universe appears to be more...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Are We Alone?
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...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Desktop Diaries: Jill Tarter
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...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Hello, Is There Anybody Out There?
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]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Happy Birthday, Seti@home
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]