With the new year underway, it’s time to celebrate a remarkable 2024 full of citizen science with the Unistellar Network! Thousands of professional and amateur astronomers came together once again to ...

Dr. Franck Marchis, a senior planetary astronomer and director of Citizen Science at the SETI Institute, and Dr. Lauren Sgro, ...

The question “are we alone in the universe?” has fascinated people for centuries. In 1959 two Cornell University physicists described how we might answer that question through interstellar ...

The SETI Institute is looking for PhD/postdoctoral researchers for its 2025 Frontier Development Lab (FDL) program, which ...

While humans were leaving the Stone Age and entering the Bronze, some Bristlecone pine trees grew from seeds to sprouts. They’ve been growing ever since. These 5,000-year-old pines are among the ...

The whole world has watched in horror as massive fires rage out of control in southern California. While the Santa Ana winds are dying down and firefighters are beginning to turn the tide, the ...

Credit: Big Ear Radio Observatory and North American AstroPhysical Observatory (NAAPO). The Wow! Signal has captivated the imagination of scientists and the public alike since its detection in 1977.

Have you heard about LaserSETI, a SETI Institute project to search for lasers originating from extraterrestrial intelligence? The idea is that advanced civilizations might be using lasers for a ...

Anastasia Yanchilina is a Frank Drake Postdoctoral Fellow at the SETI Institute, specializing in interdisciplinary research that spans astrobiology, planetary science, geochemistry, geobiology, marine ...

Current Research Interests: Protoplanetary disk formation and evolution, plasma energy release and plasma heating/acceleration in the Heliosphere and solar-like stars (Flares, coronal mass ejections ...

I am a Data Scientist for NASA’s TESS Mission at the SETI Institute, where I am part of the Science Processing Operations Center (SPOC) for the TESS mission at NASA’s Ames Research Center. Before ...