What if billions of years ago, the Red Planet had rain, snow, and even rivers that carved out landscapes much like those we ...

Stunning stellar explosions occur every second across the cosmos – some observable, most too distant to ever know, all of ...

When we think about asteroids that could threaten Earth, we often imagine massive, city-sized rocks hurtling through space.

Project Phoenix, like all SETI efforts, was a passive experiment, designed only to look for signals, not to send them. However, humankind has been unintentionally transmitting signals into space - ...

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 ...

An international leader in the movement of integrating art and science. The AIR program connects contemporary artists with SETI Institute researchers and facilitates an exchange of ideas to catalyze ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Shooting stars are nature’s atmospheric fireworks display. Whether this phenomenon can bring luck or love is open to debate, but the true origin is linked to the story of our Solar System. Meteors are ...

The SETI Institute was incorporated as a 501(c)3 California Non-Profit Corporation on November 20, 1984. The inaugural officers of the Institute were CEO Thomas Pierson and SETI scientist Jill Tarter.