A team of scientists from the SETI Institute and the University of California at Davis documented, for the first time, ...

Introduction Radio interferometry is a technique in radio astronomy where signals from two or more radio telescopes are ...

One of humanity’s most profound questions is whether life exists beyond Earth — and if so, what forms it might take. For ...

What if billions of years ago, the Red Planet had rain, snow, and even rivers that carved out landscapes much like those we see on Earth? That’s precisely what Dr. Amanda Steckel’s research suggests!

When we think about asteroids that could threaten Earth, we often imagine massive, city-sized rocks hurtling through space. But what if the real danger comes from much smaller, barely detectable ones?

Stunning stellar explosions occur every second across the cosmos – some observable, most too distant to ever know, all of them fleeting, lasting from seconds to tens of thousands of years. In the age ...

The SETI Institute partners with Unistellar, a company that intends to reinvent popular astronomy through the development of the Enhanced Vision Telescope (eVscope), a mass-market digital scope that ...

This spring, skywatchers have been treated to the captivating and unpredictable display of a new comet, called C/2025 F2 (SWAN). Discovered in late March 2025 through data from the SWAN instrument ...

For decades, many scientists have relied on the "hard steps" model to suggest that intelligent life is rare — the improbable result of a series of unlikely evolutionary leaps. But new research by ...

In this edition of SETI AIR News we feature Bart Kuipers, one of our Cosmic Consciousness Residency recipients. The residency explores questions regarding intelligence, communication, and ...

April 24, 2025, Mountain View, CA – The SETI Institute and the Maldives Space Research Organisation (MSRO) will collaborate on astronomy research, space science education and public outreach. This ...

April 23, 2025, Mountain View, CA – The SETI Institute will recognize Dr. Joseph Twicken, Senior Data Scientist at the SETI Institute, with its 2025 Carl Sagan Center (CSC) Director’s Award. Now ...