A rocky planet about 48 light-years away may have offered astronomers a rare glimpse of an atmosphere escaping into space. In ...

Astronomers have found a marginal excess of fast radio bursts toward massive galaxy clusters. The finding points to two ...

Targeting star systems identified by Kepler Space Telescope (especially those in habitable-zone candidate planets). Surveying a region near the Milky Way’s Galactic Center (where stellar density is ...

Last week, we explored the wonders of our universe, from Perseverance's record-setting journey across Mars and the city of ...

Seth claims to have developed an interest in extraterrestrial life at the tender age of ten, when he first picked up a book about the Solar System. This innocent beginning eventually led to a degree ...

The SETI Institute’s Astronomy Activation Ambassadors (AAA) program (2016-25) was one of more than 30 education projects funded by NASA’s Science Mission Directorate for Science Activation (SciAct).

Our mission is to lead humanity's quest to understand the origins and prevalence of life and intelligence in the universe and share that knowledge with the world.

Figure 1: A giant volcano hiding in plain sight in one of Mars’ most iconic regions. The newly discovered giant volcano on Mars is located just south of the planet’s equator, in Eastern Noctis ...

Working across installation, performance, and bio-hybrid systems, she combines living organisms, bodily materials, and ...

Bill Diamond is a Silicon Valley technology veteran and current President and CEO of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California. The SETI Institute is a nonprofit astrophysics and astrobiology ...

Dr. Drake was the former Director of the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe, and previously served as Chairman of SETI Institute's Board of Directors. He was Professor, Astronomy ...