Peter Backus

Many common ideas about SETI just aren’t true, but that doesn't prevent them from popping up in popular articles, blogs, books, and even movies. Here are three of my favorite fallacies about SETI.

The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is the first of a new generation of radio telescopes. It is a radical departure from traditional radio telescope design and construction.

For decades the conventional wisdom on M dwarfs and habitable planets was "forget it." That view is changing.