What: Researchers report the possible discovery of a millisecond pulsar near the Galactic Center using data from the ...

Why it matters: While not evidence of life, these discoveries show that ancient Mars had complex organic chemistry, ...

Science depends on trustworthy evidence. When the observational record is compromised, entire fields can be misdirected. AI ...

Once back at the airbase, we will spend several days sorting and repacking. Some equipment will stay here in Antarctica for ...

Seth claims to have developed an interest in extraterrestrial life at the tender age of ten, when he first picked up a book about the Solar System. This innocent beginning eventually led to a degree ...

As always, make sure to catch up on our SETI AIR news and events. de Paulis, D., Mignone, C., Forget, B., Fabbri, I., De Vito ...

What: Scientists have revived microscopic worms frozen in Siberian permafrost for roughly 46,000 years, revealing how life can survive extreme cold through cryptobios ...

Targeting star systems identified by Kepler Space Telescope (especially those in habitable-zone candidate planets). Surveying a region near the Milky Way’s Galactic Center (where stellar density is ...

Figure 1: A giant volcano hiding in plain sight in one of Mars’ most iconic regions. The newly discovered giant volcano on Mars is located just south of the planet’s equator, in Eastern Noctis ...

The SETI Institute’s Astronomy Activation Ambassadors (AAA) program (2016-25) was one of more than 30 education projects funded by NASA’s Science Mission Directorate for Science Activation (SciAct).

Project Phoenix was the world's most sensitive and comprehensive search for extraterrestrial intelligence that had been conducted up until approximately 2015. It was an effort to detect ...

Dr. Jill Tarter is Chair Emeritus for SETI Research at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California and serves as a member of the Board of Trustees for that institution. Tarter received her ...