While telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) can detect the chemical fingerprints of distant atmospheres, ...
Juice observed 3I/ATLAS during perihelion, when Earth-based telescopes could not. Spectroscopic observations measured water ...
This collection showcases a solar system in motion, from Saturn’s moons playing tricks on perspective and a comet’s dramatic ...
This summer, SETI AIR Director Bettina Forget's Imagine Aliens project is featured as part of the Exploratorium's Life in ...
What happens if scientists find evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence? That question was at the center of a recent SETI Live discussion about newly updated post-detection protocols and how ...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the asteroid Dimorphos was taken on 19 December 2022, nearly four months after the asteroid was impacted by NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) ...
While JWST reveals the ancient universe billions of years old, SkyMapper focuses on today’s changing cosmos — tracking near-Earth asteroids, meteors, comets, satellites, and transient events that ...
At the SETI Institute, we aren’t just looking at the stars—we are actively trying to understand our place among them. Our mission is dedicated to advancing humanity’s understanding of the universe ...