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

January 11, 2024, Mountain View, CA -- The SETI Institute is announcing the 2023 SETI Forward Award recipients: Dana Yaptangco and Róża Okoń. Now in its 5th year, SETI Forward is a beacon for ...

In November, SETI Institute researchers contributed expert perspective to media stories on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS and recent experiments testing the survival of plant life in space. The coverage ...

Humans have been searching for signs of extraterrestrial life for more than a century, funding international efforts to search for signals from distant planets, launch probes, and build bigger and ...

Designer Tomáš Holek and the team at CGE rounded off some of the edges for SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.

The SETI Institute recently began searching for signs of advanced extraterrestrial civilizations in distant galaxies outside our own. The research comes at a time when the notion that strange crafts ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the history of science and exploration. SETI@Home gave rise to an active online community of volunteers and enthusaists.

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 ...

This article is part of Future Tense, a collaboration among Arizona State University, New America, and Slate. Future Tense explores the ways emerging technologies affect society, policy, and culture.

Many common ideas about SETI just aren't true, but that doesn't prevent them from popping up in popular articles, blogs, books, and even movies. Here are three of my favorite fallacies about SETI.

1. Seti stands for the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence. 2. If intelligent aliens are out there, Dr Seth Shostak, the Seti Institute's senior astronomer, believes they will be "thinking ...

Scientists at the University of California Berkeley’s SETI@home project say they’ll stop sending new work to the network of volunteers, who’ve been using their computers to search for aliens since ...