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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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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1984: The SETI Institute is founded. Man's fascination with the possibility of intelligent life existing elsewhere has been around since the first Cro-Magnon cast a wondering eye to the heavens. The ...

The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence is a series of projects that scrub the background noise of the universe to look for alien life. One of the most famous ventures under the name was ...

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 ...