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From SETI@home to Hominid Fossils: Citizen Cyberscience Reshapes Research Landscape
Posted by Amir Alexander on 2008/01/15 11:00 CST | 1 comments
Planetary System Detected Around SETI@home Target Star
Posted by Amir Alexander on 2007/11/08 11:00 CST
Planetary Society's Optical SETI Telescope Offers Online View of Night sky
Posted by Bruce Betts on 2007/10/30 12:00 CDT
The Planetary Society's Optical SETI Telescope was built solely to search for possible light signals from alien civilizations. Located at Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts, it is the first dedicated Optical SETI telescope in the world. Its 72-inch primary mirror also makes it larger than any optical telescope in the U.S. east of the Mississippi river.
Millions of soundings yield clues to Mars' weather
Posted by Bruce Betts on 2007/04/03 12:00 CDT
Two months after the start of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's primary science phase, the Mars Climate Sounder instrument has already acquired more than four million soundings, building toward a vast data set on the three-dimensional structure of Mars' atmosphere over the full Martian year of the orbiter's nominal mission.
Updates from Past Recipients of the Shoemaker NEO Grants
Posted by Bruce Betts on 2007/03/01 11:00 CST
Update as of March 4, 2007 Thanks to The Planetary Society Shoemaker Grant, the 1.06-meter KLENOT telescope optics was completed at the Klet Observatory. Regular observations of the KLENOT project started in March 2002 under the new IAU/MPC code 246, so we can now present results covering 5 years of this work.
Keeping an Ear to the Center of the Galaxy, Southern SETI Prepares for Great Leap Forward
Posted by Amir Alexander on 2007/02/26 11:00 CST
With Observations in Full Swing, Team Prepares to Remove "Sunglasses" from Telescope
Posted by Amir Alexander on 2007/02/26 11:00 CST
Spacecraft Set to Reach Milestone, Reports Technical Glitches
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2007/02/07 11:00 CST
With Multi-Beam Receiver, SETI@home Takes Giant Step Forward
Posted by Amir Alexander on 2006/08/14 12:00 CDT
Updates from Past Recipients of the Shoemaker NEO Grants
Posted by Bruce Betts on 2006/07/18 12:00 CDT
Update as of July 13, 2006 Using the Shoemaker NEO Grant funds, Minor Planet Research has purchased a 1.7-terabyte data server for our Asteroid Discovery Station (ADS) education outreach program Through the generosity of Dr. Philip Christensen, this server is housed at the Mars Space Flight Facility (MSFF) at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.
Telescope shows its Amazing Capabilities
Posted by Bruce Betts on 2006/07/11 12:00 CDT
During a few observation sessions in late April, the new Optical SETI Telescope was already demonstrating its amazing capabilities. Over three nights, the telescope completed 17 hours of observation, under the direction of Paul Horowitz and his team of Harvard graduate students. During that time, the telescope observed 1% of the sky, looking for the briefest flashes of light coming from outer space.
Posted by Charlene AndersonAmir Alexander on 2006/07/07 12:00 CDT
The Planetary Society Optical SETI Telescope Opens
Posted by Bruce Betts on 2006/04/28 12:00 CDT
On April 11, 2006, a new era dawned in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) with the dedication and beginning of operations of The Planetary Society Optical SETI Telescope in Harvard, Massachusetts. It is the first devoted optical SETI telescope in the world. The telescope was constructed by Paul Horowitz and his group at Harvard University using funding from Planetary Society members.
The Planetary Society and the Search for Extrasolar Planets
Posted by Amir Alexander on 2005/10/27 12:00 CDT
Almost since it was founded in 1980, The Planetary Society has been there for the search for other worlds.
The End of Cosmos 1, the Beginning of the Next Chapter
Posted by Louis D. Friedman on 2005/09/30 12:00 CDT
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