New SETI survey focuses on Kepler's top Earth-like planets

UC Berkeley uses Green Bank radio telescope to look for signals from advanced civilizations

Now that NASA's Kepler space telescope has identified 1,235 possible planets around stars in our galaxy, astronomers at the University of California, Berkeley, are aiming a radio telescope at the most Earth-like of these worlds to see if they can detect signals from an advanced civilization.

The search began on Saturday, May 8, when the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope ? the largest steerable r [...]

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