15 October 2018
SETI partners with MeerKAT to search for alien life
... the Square Kilometre Array. This is an exciting moment for SETI and radio astronomy in general,” said the Breakthrough Initiatives’ Executive Director, Pete Worden. With the addition of MeerKAT’s observations to its existing surveys, Listen will...
19 November 2021
New mission to search for habitable planets close to Earth announced
..., says. “It will be a joy to fly this bird." The project has also received seed funding from the Breakthrough Initiatives, a science-based programme funded by Julia and Yuri Milner, aimed at searching for signs of life beyond our...
08 May 2019
Tests start on first design of 'wafer scale' spacecraft
... at relativistic speeds – a similar concept that has been proposed for the light sail technology being researched by Breakthrough Initiatives for its Starshot mission. Unlike the light sail however, the wafercraft will be powered by a laser array...
