Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian was selected through a competitive process to act as one of the Principal Investigators on ...

On July 18, NASA successfully launched a sounding rocket mission from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, carrying a ...

The Cosmic Chronicles Literary Prize comes with a $1,000 award and publication on the SETI Institute’s website. The SETI AIR ...

The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is located at the Hat Creek Observatory in the Cascade Mountains of California, approximately 300 miles to the north of San Francisco and two dozen miles north of ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS was first identified by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), a global network of four robotic telescopes located in Hawaii, Chile, and South Africa. ATLAS ...

The Drake Equation has been called the second most important equation in science. How many alien societies exist and are detectable? The Drake Equation is a step toward the answer. Frank Drake created ...

The Frontier Development Lab (FDL) is a public-private partnership between NASA, the US Department of Energy, and the SETI Institute, supported by AI/ML technology leaders and subject matter experts ...

Our mission is to lead humanity's quest to understand the origins and prevalence of life and intelligence in the universe and share that knowledge with the world ...

In 1960, radio astronomer Frank D. Drake, then at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Green Bank, West Virginia, carried out humanity's first modern attempt to detect interstellar radio ...

Project Phoenix was the world's most sensitive and comprehensive search for extraterrestrial intelligence that had been conducted up until approximately 2015. It was an effort to detect ...

June 28, 2023, Mountain View, CA – Gravitational waves play a cosmic symphony as they pass through our galaxy. Today the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) Physics ...

Seth claims to have developed an interest in extraterrestrial life at the tender age of ten, when he first picked up a book about the Solar System. This innocent beginning eventually led to a degree ...