Throughout December, the SETI Institute appeared across leading science and media outlets, reflecting the SETI Institute’s ...

A distant pulsar’s radio signal flickers as it passes through space, much like stars twinkle in Earth’s atmosphere. By ...

What: Ultraviolet observations of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS captured by NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft while the ...

Usually, these are regular people who happen to enjoy alien conspiracies, and they can largely be ignored. In the case of the ...

Some of the most tantalizing hints in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence have not been messy or chaotic, but eerily ...

A pulsar’s gentle twinkle is revealing how space quietly bends and delays the signals we receive from the cosmos.

For a number of decades, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI) has been combing the stars for signs of a technologically advanced civilization lurking in their midst. And ...

Aliens, art, and artificial intelligence are about to collide at the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Institute (SETI) in Mountain View, California, which has awarded Mexico City artistic research ...

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The billions of stars in the night sky can give rise to the question, are we alone in the universe? The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) seeks to answer that question by hunting for ...

The timing couldn't be worse, say SETI scientists. After millenniums of musings, this spring astronomers announced that 1,235 new possible planets had been observed by Kepler, a telescope on a space ...