As always, make sure to catch up on our SETI AIR’s news and events. The SETI AIR program is delighted to welcome Adrien Segal ...

The Breakthrough Listen Initiative, together with its network of collaborators, has undertaken observations of 3I/ATLAS using ...

Updated models suggest only 60,000 to 250,000 Earth-like habitats may exist in the Galaxy, with far fewer capable of ...

Decentralized physical infrastructure connects independently operated telescopes into a coordinated observing network AI-driven scheduling allows rapid follow-up of transient astronomical events ...

In November, SETI Institute researchers contributed expert perspective to media stories on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS and ...

December 16, 2025, Mountain View, CA -- The Cosmic Chronicles Literary Award is a new contest for emerging authors from the SETI Institute’s Artist in Residence (AIR) program. This summer, we launched ...

An artistic rendering of a dust and gas disk encircling the young exoplanet, CT Cha b, 625 light-years from Earth. Spectroscopic data from NASA’s JWST suggest the disk contains the raw materials for ...

The SETI Institute’s Artist in Residence (AIR) program announced that American artist Adrien Segal is the recipient of the Planetary Futures Public Art Residency. This research-creation residency ...

December 10, 2025, Mountain View, CA -- For 10 months, a SETI Institute–led team watched pulsar PSR J0332+5434 (also called B0329+54) to study how its radio signal "twinkles" as it passes through gas ...

Sub-Neptune exoplanets tend to be much closer to their host star than Earth is to the Sun and are thought to have atmospheres made of steam over layers of an exotic phase of water that behaves like ...

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile have captured this eye-catching image of planetary nebula Abell 33. Created when an aging star blew off its outer layers, this beautiful blue ...