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The Kardashev scale, envisions civilizations as endlessly progressing, building gigantic spaceships or Dyson spheres around ...
In this edition of SETI AIR News we feature Julie-Michèle Morin, one of our Cosmic Consciousness Residency recipients, whose technofeminist research into robotics and theatre challenges conventional ...
Dr. Peter Jenniskens. He’s an expert on meteor showers and currently runs Cameras for Allsky Meteor Surveillance (CAMS) project. Peter is also famous for identifying the parent body of the Quadrantid ...
Could Life Exist Beyond Earth? This question holds universal appeal and has the power to revolutionize how we view our place in the cosmos—if we ever find an answer. It’s a question that is the ...
Dr. Jeffrey Smith began his academic passion in the field of Accelerator Physics. After building a cyclotron, a small particle accelerator, as an undergraduate at Knox College, Jeff matriculated at ...
June 18, 2025, Mountain View, CA – The SETI Institute and SpaceX have launched a groundbreaking collaboration to help protect sensitive radio astronomy observations at the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) ...
The SETI Institute Data Science team plays a central role in the data processing pipelines for both NASA's Kepler and TESS science processing pipelines. We also actively develop pipelines for several ...
Healthy rivers and riparian ecosystems are teaming with life, but should rivers themselves be considered alive? The question is central to the growing rights-of-nature movement that claims that ...
The SETI Institute and Unistellar are partners in a unique citizen science collaboration. The Unistellar eVscope is a smart, digital, portable consumer telescope capable of deep sky observations that ...
June 17, 2025, Mountain View, CA — The SETI Institute announced today a strategic collaboration with SkyMapper, the world’s leading decentralized global astronomy and space science network. Together, ...
Astronomers investigate stellar environments and their radiation, examining how dying stars synthesize solids in their outer envelopes. Quantum chemists compute the structural and spectroscopic ...