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

Throughout December, the SETI Institute appeared across leading science and media outlets, reflecting the SETI Institute’s continued leadership in research and public engagement.

April 24, 2025, Mountain View, CA – The SETI Institute and the Maldives Space Research Organisation (MSRO) will collaborate on astronomy research, space science education and public outreach. This ...

The SETI Institute has appointed three new members to its Science Advisory Board (SAB) bringing expertise in space governance, science advocacy, international engagement and the ethics of space ...

The SETI Institute, a non-profit scientific institution located in Mountain View, CA, and the French company Unistellar, located in Marseille, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that will ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

How do we search for extraterrestrial life? An artist’s rendering of the planet Kepler-452b, the first near-Earth-size world to be found in the habitable zone of a star that is similar to our sun.

In May 2010, Charles Lindsay met Jill Tarter, former director of SETI Research and the inspiration behind the film Contact. They instantly became friends and when Tarter invited Lindsay to hang out at ...

Breakthrough Listen announced its second major release of SETI data: a radio survey of the plane of the Milky Way and the galactic center. The public is urged to search the data for signals from ...

Jill Tarter has been asking the big question, “Are we alone in the universe?” since she was a child. Several decades have passed with no answer since that time, and the questions remain: “We want to ...

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SETI, the search for intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, has been running along for nearly 50 years now. One of the notable things about the SETI programs is that while the rest of science has ...