A team of scientists from the SETI Institute and the University of California at Davis documented, for the first time, ...

Introduction Radio interferometry is a technique in radio astronomy where signals from two or more radio telescopes are ...

One of humanity’s most profound questions is whether life exists beyond Earth — and if so, what forms it might take. For ...

April 7, 2025, Mountain View, CA -- What if we spend decades building advanced telescopes to search for life on other planets and come up empty-handed? A recent study led by ETH Zurich researchers ...

March 31, 2025, Mountain View, CA -- In April 2019, rare primitive meteorites fell near the town of Aguas Zarcas in northern Costa Rica. In an article published online in the journal Meteoritics & ...

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, ...

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 ...

October 16, 2024, Mountain View, CA —The SETI Institute is pleased to open the call for applications for the 2025 Frank Drake Postdoctoral Fellowship (FDPF), which supports groundbreaking research in ...

July marked a significant milestone in optical SETI research, as the SETI Institute team installed two new LaserSETI stations in Sedona, AZ. This installation brings the number of active LaserSETI ...