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

When we think about asteroids that could threaten Earth, we often imagine massive, city-sized rocks hurtling through space. But what if the real danger comes from much smaller, barely detectable ones?

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

The SETI Institute partners with Unistellar, a company that intends to reinvent popular astronomy through the development of the Enhanced Vision Telescope (eVscope), a mass-market digital scope that ...

This spring, skywatchers have been treated to the captivating and unpredictable display of a new comet, called C/2025 F2 ...

For decades, many scientists have relied on the "hard steps" model to suggest that intelligent life is rare — the improbable result of a series of unlikely evolutionary leaps. But new research by ...

In this edition of SETI AIR News we feature Bart Kuipers, one of our Cosmic Consciousness Residency recipients. The residency explores questions regarding intelligence, communication, and ...

April 24, 2025, Mountain View, CA – The SETI Institute and the Maldives Space Research Organisation (MSRO) will collaborate on astronomy research, space science education and public outreach. This ...

April 23, 2025, Mountain View, CA – The SETI Institute will recognize Dr. Joseph Twicken, Senior Data Scientist at the SETI Institute, with its 2025 Carl Sagan Center (CSC) Director’s Award. Now ...