In 1977, the detection of a brief radio signal prompted SETI astronomer Jerry Ehman to write a single word in the margin of a ...
The Virtual Planetary Laboratory (VPL), one of NASA’s flagship astrobiology research teams, has officially joined the SETI ...
Half a century after the first successful Mars landing, Viking's greatest legacy may be the questions it taught us to ask.
Throughout June 2026, SETI Institute scientists, affiliates, and collaborators contributed to discussions spanning ...
This week, we explore worlds in the making, from the first-ever evidence of moons forming around a distant exoplanet to ...
Two SETI Institute planetary scientists now have asteroids bearing their names, an honor! The International Astronomical ...
When astronomers observe distant exoplanets, they sometimes encounter a frustrating result: instead of revealing the chemical fingerprints of an atmosphere, the data appear almost completely flat.
Our team’s research is driven by a single scientific question: “How can we best assess whether an exoplanet supports life?” To answer this, the massively interdisciplinary VPL Team develops and ...
It’s now the biggest single-dish radio telescope on Earth. Settled down in the bumpy karst of China’s Guizhou province, about 1200 miles southwest of Beijing, this newest instrument for studying the ...
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The MAVEN spacecraft, designed to investigate how Mars went from being a kinder, gentler world to one that’s cold, dry and with only the thinnest of atmospheres, has arrived. It has begun to orbit the ...
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