The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has officially named Asteroid 2006 BT282 as Asteroid Shostak, honoring Dr. Seth ...

These targets will guide observations with current and future facilities, including the James Webb Space Telescope and ...

A team of scientists using the NASA Curiosity rover recently performed the first successful wet-chemistry experiment on Mars, and their paper has just been published in Nature Communications. They ...

October 28, 2025, Mountain View, CA – The SETI Institute announced that it will incorporate the new NVIDIA IGX Thor platform to enhance its real-time search for signals from space at the Allen ...

The Discovery and Futures Lab’s mission is to anticipate and explore humanity’s responses to the discovery of life beyond ...

This week's planetary images took us from the fractured ice of Europa and the shadowed edge of the Moon to a fiery-looking ...

SkyMapper functions as an observational infrastructure, a system that links instruments, users, and data streams. Its goal is ...

We are especially pleased to welcome Richelle Ellis as our newest affiliate artist, whose work exemplifies the expansive, ...

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image captures an active lava flow on the Piton de la Fournaise volcano on Réunion Island. Located in the western Indian Ocean, the island of Réunion is a French overseas ...

At the SETI Institute, there are more than 100 of us leading humanity’s question to understand the origins and prevalence of life and intelligence in the universe and sharing that knowledge with the ...