While the James Webb Space Telescope provides a window into the ancient universe, SkyMapper focuses on the present by ...

January 15, 2026, Mountain View, CA – The SETI Institute announced that nominations are now open for the 2026 Tarter Award ...

Last July, Earth's radio telescopes targeted an interstellar comet traversing our solar system—the third confirmed ...

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

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

April 1, 2025, Mountain View, CA -- The SETI Institute announced today two recipients for the 2025 Drake Award: Dr. David Deamer (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Dr. John Baross (University ...

"It is a wonderful and appropriate honor that Dr. Jill Tarter should be this year's recipient of the prestigious Green Sands Prize," said Bill Diamond, President and CEO of the SETI Institute. "Jill ...

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 ...

The SETI Institute has honored David Deamer, an emeritus professor of biomolecular engineering, with its Drake Award. This award celebrates remarkable achievements in the realms of astrobiology and ...

In a quiet part of Northern California, where pine trees brush the sky and the hum of giant satellite dishes fills the air, something big is happening in science education. A new wave of college ...

You too could be Jodie Foster as astronomers organize a practice run in communicating with aliens. By Dennis Overbye He was convinced that human beings would eventually connect with extraterrestrials, ...

Scientists have found the source of a strange form of communication in the ocean that they say could help them locate extraterrestrial life in space. Researchers from the SETI Institute (Search for ...