We all know Mars is called “The Red Planet,” but have you ever stopped to wonder—why is it red? The classic joke explanation ...

What if we spend decades building advanced telescopes to search for life on other planets and come up empty-handed? A recent ...

In April 2019, rare primitive meteorites fell near the town of Aguas Zarcas in northern Costa Rica. In an article published ...

The SETI Institute announced today two recipients for the 2025 Drake Award: Dr. David Deamer (University of California, Santa ...

Dr. Drake was the former Director of the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe, and previously served as Chairman of SETI Institute's Board of Directors. He was Professor, Astronomy ...

Interstate 80 eastbound, twenty miles outside of Sacramento. It’s Tuesday, November 20, 1984; a day on which a small part of history will be created. In a folder next to me on the front seat of my ...

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 ...

In 1974, the most powerful broadcast ever deliberately beamed into space was made from Puerto Rico. The broadcast formed part of the ceremonies held to mark a major upgrade to the Arecibo Radio ...

SETI is a generic acronym that stands for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Scientists doing SETI experiments are looking for proof – not merely of life elsewhere – but of intelligent ...

The Project Phoenix system is designed to detect faint communication signals coming from light years away while rejecting the cacophany of terrestrial communications. How do we know the system works?

This exciting science adventure has students trace the travels of Amelia Spacehart, an astronaut and radio astronomer, who is searching the Solar System for the source of a mysterious radio signal. Is ...