One of humanity’s most profound questions is whether life exists beyond Earth — and if so, what forms it might take. For ...

What if billions of years ago, the Red Planet had rain, snow, and even rivers that carved out landscapes much like those we ...

April 7, 2025, Mountain View, CA -- What if we spend decades building advanced telescopes to search for life on other planets and come up empty-handed? A recent study led by ETH Zurich researchers ...

March 31, 2025, Mountain View, CA -- In April 2019, rare primitive meteorites fell near the town of Aguas Zarcas in northern Costa Rica. In an article published online in the journal Meteoritics & ...

Geologic map of the asteroid belt. Circles identify the asteroid families from which our meteorites originate and letters mark the corresponding meteorite type. The horizontal axis ranges from short ...

Dr. Franck Marchis, a senior planetary astronomer and director of Citizen Science at the SETI Institute, and Dr. Lauren Sgro, outreach manager for LaserSETI and astronomer at the SETI Institute, ...

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.

October 16, 2024, Mountain View, CA — Scientists at the SETI Institute and partners from Penn State University used the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) to search for signs of alien technology in the ...

The first extragalactic search for technosignatures at low frequencies covers 2,800 galaxies in one search. August 26, Mountain View, CA – The SETI Institute, the Berkeley SETI Research Center and the ...

A deeply eroded giant volcano, active from ancient through recent times and with possible remnants of glacier ice near its base, had been hiding near Mars’ equator in plain sight. Its discovery points ...

Aubrite meteorite from asteroid 2024 BX1, photographed at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin by Laura Kranich, a Freie Universität MSc student and member of the Arbeitskreis Meteore, who participated in ...