“We’ve deliberately included that into our research portfolio,” Dr. Such signs could include air pollution in the atmospheres of distant planets. Zurbuchen pointed to NASA research that is trying to identify potential “technosignatures” - signs of a technological civilization - in astronomical observations. That initiative at Berkeley SETI Research Center is financed by Yuri Milner, a Russian-born billionaire technology investor who lives in the United States.ĭuring the news conference, Dr. NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter has gone viral after snapping photos on the Red Planet of what looked like a flying saucer but was actually landing gear from last year’s mission to Mars. Since then, systematic searches for alien civilizations have been mostly privately financed efforts like those conducted by the SETI Institute in California and by Breakthrough Listen. His last day with the agency is Sunday, July 31. NASA Announces Astronaut Shane Kimbrough to Retire NASA’s Shane Kimbrough is retiring after 22 years, including 18 years as an astronaut. 5, to preview the upcoming Artemis I lunar mission. In 1992, NASA started a radio astronomy program to search for radio signals from alien civilizations, but Congress canceled that effort the following year. NASA will host a pair of briefings on Wednesday, Aug.
In 1978, Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin bestowed one of his “Golden Fleece” awards on NASA’s modest SETI program, highlighting what he called a waste of taxpayer money. The vacuum reflects decades of Congressional skepticism. NASA now has a robust program in astrobiology - looking at life elsewhere in the solar system and galaxy - but does almost no work on the possibility of intelligent civilizations sharing our universe. research as “not actual science,” tackling controversial questions is important, Dr. While many scientists might consider U.F.O. “It’s for a research program that we can then implement,” he said. The NASA study will also consider other explanations like natural phenomena or unknown advanced technology developed by Russia, China or other countries. NASA has not yet chosen the other scientists who will participate on the study.
NASA’s effort will be independent of the Pentagon’s and will be led by David Spergel, an astrophysicist who is currently president of the Simons Foundation in New York, which finances fundamental research work in mathematics and the sciences. The officials said there was no evidence that these phenomena were extraterrestrial in nature. In 2021, the Pentagon announced it would form a new task force to look at the issue after a Congressionally-mandated report found there was insufficient data for many incidents that had been observed.Īt a House subcommittee hearing last month, Pentagon officials testified about military reports of unexplained phenomena, including a reflective spherical object speeding past a fighter jet. The Pentagon has said the program was shut down in 2012, but backers of the program said its work continued.
More than a dozen universities, research institutes and observatories worldwide are participants in the mission.For years a military intelligence official, Luis Elizondo, ran a little-noticed group within the Pentagon called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. Additional partners include Northrop Grumman, based in Falls Church, Virginia NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Massachusetts and the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. George Ricker of MIT’s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research serves as principal investigator for the mission. TESS is a NASA Astrophysics Explorer mission led and operated by MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and managed by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Watch to review some of TESS’s most interesting discoveries so far. NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has completed its two-year primary mission and is continuing its search for new worlds.
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