Seth Shostak (born July 20, 1943) is an American astronomer, currently Senior Astronomer and Director, Center for SETI research. Read full biography of Seth Shostak →
Today's voguish threats, including climate change, population growth, massive war, and resource depletion, are all amenable to a fix if we act... →
We can no better imagine what will be happening on the moon 500 years from now than Columbus could imagine contemporary Manhattan. Except to say that... →
We haven't yet found a speck of evidence for biology on another world, so we have no objective way to judge whether life is a onetime fluke or a... →
We've accounted for 95 percent of all the stars in the Milky Way. The other 5 percent are big, bright stars - the kind that dominate the night... →
'What was there before the Big Bang?' That's a question that both kids and adults love to pose to anyone who seems sympathetic. After... →
When I graduated high school, nearly a half-million people subscribed to 'Popular Electronics' magazine. Soldering up some radio or hi-fi... →
While I have always thought that the motivation for looking for E.T. was both self-evident and patently worthy, it's possible that I'm a... →
While it may be disappointing, I have to confess to people who ask for my insights on the meaning of it all that astronomy doesn't provide any... →
You may not see massive UFO exhibits at your local science museum, but there's no dearth of saucer stories infesting my email. Every day, I... →
Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. They're about telling stories.
'Eternal inflation,' as it's called - the endless generation of new universes - may be a hyper-cosmic imperative. It seems that it must... →
Frankly, I'll believe in horoscopes the day I can describe my personality to an astrologer and they tell me what date I was born.
I actually think the chances that we'll find E.T. are pretty good.
Seth Shostak (born July 20, 1943) is an American astronomer, currently Senior Astronomer and Director, Center for SETI research.