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

What Cassini Saw — and What It Didn’t Why are Titan’s river deltas missing? Planetary scientist Beth Johnson chats with Brown University’s Sam Birch to explore a strange and unexpected mystery on ...

Education: PhD in Astrophysics, obtained in 2015 at the Université Grenoble Alpes, France, jointly with the Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy Laura Venuti is an astronomer in the field of star ...

Dr. Simon J. George has long been interested in how and why biological organisms use metals to do many of the key chemical reactions that allow life to happen. Metals, such as iron, nickel, molybdenum ...

The Drake Awards is a one-of-a-kind celebration at the SETI Institute. Together, we explore one of humanity's biggest questions—are we alone? This special hybrid event brings together a vibrant ...

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In the twenty years since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, powerful hurricanes such as Sandy, Irma, Maria and Helene have caused immense property destruction and led to thousands of deaths ...

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

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 ...

April 23, 2021, Mountain View, CA -- An international team of researchers searched for pieces of a small asteroid tracked in space and then observed to impact Botswana on June 2, 2018. Guided by SETI ...

A way for the SETI community to keep track of, and update, all SETI searches that have been conducted and the results. January 9, 2019, Mountain View, CA – For the first time ever, scientists have ...