A total eclipse of the Moon will be visible to everyone in North and South America on the night of March 13 to 14, 2025. ...

Mars has captivated scientists and the public alike for centuries. One of the biggest reasons is the planet’s reddish hue, ...

SETI Institute In the News This month at the SETI Institute, exciting developments are shaping our understanding of 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 ...

Countless asteroids in our solar system, some close, some far — but did you know that some of these space rocks have names?

Update as of February 2025 When Comet G3 reached perihelion, comet watchers observed a sharp increase in brightness as the ...

SETI research often involves hunting for technosignatures—evidence of technology from distant civilizations. But how ...

Dr. Drake was the former Director of the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe, and previously served as Chairman of SETI Institute's Board of Directors. He was Professor, Astronomy ...

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 - ...

Artificial intelligence is transforming the way we explore the Moon. In a recent SETI Live, authors Adam Lesnikowski and Daniel Angerhausen, hosted by Franck Marchis, a Senior Planetary Astronomer at ...

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 ...

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 ...