Funding woes may have shut down a major SETI observatory, but the search for extraterrestrial intelligence isn't dead. In fact, it's more focused than ever.
Astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley, the SETI Institute of California, and the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory are listening for alien signals from dozens of planets in the so-called "habitable zone" of their stars, the first time a targeted search of this kind has been undertaken.
"We've honed the list to the really exciting exoplanets," says team member Dan Werthimer of UC Berkeley
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