Dear friends, The whole world has watched in horror as massive fires rage out of control in southern California. While the ...

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 ...

Have you heard about LaserSETI, a SETI Institute project to search for lasers originating from extraterrestrial intelligence?

Sep 16, 2025, 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM ...

While humans were leaving the Stone Age and entering the Bronze, some Bristlecone pine trees grew from seeds to sprouts. They’ve been growing ever since. These 5,000-year-old pines are among the ...

Current Research Interests: Protoplanetary disk formation and evolution, plasma energy release and plasma heating/acceleration in the Heliosphere and solar-like stars (Flares, coronal mass ejections ...

I am a Data Scientist for NASA’s TESS Mission at the SETI Institute, where I am part of the Science Processing Operations Center (SPOC) for the TESS mission at NASA’s Ames Research Center. Before ...

Juan Martinez-Sykora is interested in developing models for the solar atmosphere and comparing them to observations. In particular, He is interested in the effects of neutrals on chromospheric physics ...

Credit: Big Ear Radio Observatory and North American AstroPhysical Observatory (NAAPO). The Wow! Signal has captivated the imagination of scientists and the public alike since its detection in 1977.

The SETI Institute’s search for alien biosignatures and technosignatures depends on radio telescopes. You may have seen the stunning photos of massive telescope arrays in the desert, but what types of ...

January 7, 2025, Mountain View, CA -- The SETI Institute announces the 2024 SETI Forward Award recipients: Gabriella Rizzo and Pritvik Sinhadc. This year's recipients worked on research projects to ...