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

How Chemistry Might Explain Life on Other Planets What if the origin of life isn’t a one-in-a-billion cosmic fluke, but something that happens whenever the conditions are just right? Join ...

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

Stunning stellar explosions occur every second across the cosmos – some observable, most too distant to ever know, all of them fleeting, lasting from seconds to tens of thousands of years. In the age ...

This spring, skywatchers have been treated to the captivating and unpredictable display of a new comet, called C/2025 F2 (SWAN). Discovered in late March 2025 through data from the SWAN instrument ...

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 ...

April 22, 2025, Mountain View, CA – The SETI Institute announced it will expand its pilot program funded through a grant from the Amateur Radio and Digital Communication (ARDC) Foundation now called ...