The SETI AIR program announced Domenica Mediati as the recipient of its Beyond Silos STEAM residency. The residency supports ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

An illustration shows the Cassini spacecraft investigating Titan with its parent planet Saturn in the background (Image ...

The SETI Institute’s Artist in Residence (AIR) program announced Domenica Mediati as the recipient of its Beyond Silos STEAM ...

Project: The Response of Halophiles from the Atacama Desert to Humidity Changes ...

The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is the first radio telescope to be designed from the ground up to be used for SETI searches.Until its construction, all radio SETI efforts were dependent on the ...

Field astrobiology, whether on our own world or faraway planets, is not for the faint-hearted, and Kimberley is a fearless and natural born explorer. As an ecologist at NASA and the SETI Institute, ...

SETI is a generic acronym that stands for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Scientists doing SETI experiments are looking for proof – not merely of life elsewhere – but of intelligent ...

The question “are we alone in the universe?” has fascinated people for centuries. In 1959 two Cornell University physicists described how we might answer that question through interstellar ...

Geologic map of the asteroid belt. Circles identify the asteroid families from which our meteorites originate and letters mark the corresponding meteorite type. The horizontal axis ranges from short ...

The Carl Sagan Center for Research (CSC) brings together all the scientific research at the SETI Institute. Home to more than 75 scientists, the CSC conducts grant-funded research across nearly all ...

How many alien societies exist, and are detectable? This famous formula gives us an idea. The Drake Equation, which was the agenda for a meeting of experts held in West Virginia in 1961, estimates N, ...