The universe is full of spectacular sights, from aurora on Earth and Jupiter to the solar flares that cause them, to distant ...

January brought a wide range of thoughtful science conversations featuring researchers from the SETI Institute, spanning everything from hands-on planetary defense with citizen scientists to careful ...

If a Galactic Internet is out there, we may be like fish swimming through the ocean, unaware of the undersea cables carrying vast streams of information around us. The data may be flowing right past ...

Keith’s note: Astrobiologist Dale Andersen is heading back in Antarctica at Lake Untersee in January-February 2026 for ...

NGC 7331, the sight of supernova SN2025rbs, imaged by George Gheirchi (US).

Project Phoenix was the world's most sensitive and comprehensive search for extraterrestrial intelligence that had been conducted up until approximately 2015. It was an effort to detect ...

Disciplines: Astronomy, Instrumentation, Education and Public Outreach, Exoplanet Detection, Planetary Science He is a member of several prestigious science committees, including the GPI Steering ...

All good as long as the winds do not get crazy! Cheers, from Untersee, snow just starting to fall, winds starting to pick up..; Power going off in a minute and off to bed, more tomorrow! Keith’s note: ...

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).

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 ...

Dr. Jill Tarter is Chair Emeritus for SETI Research at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California and serves as a member of the Board of Trustees for that institution. Tarter received her ...