January 7, 2025, Mountain View, CA -- The SETI Institute announces the 2024 SETI Forward Award recipients: Gabriella Rizzo and Pritvik Sinhadc. This year's recipients worked on research projects to ...

February 12, 2024, Mountain View, CA -- In a paper published in the Astronomical Journal, a team of researchers from the SETI Institute, Berkeley SETI Research Center and the University of Washington ...

In 1995, the computer scientist David Gedye had an idea that could only originate at a cocktail party. What if the world’s personal computers were linked together on the internet to create a virtual ...

People have been looking up at the Milky Way for thousands of years, marveling at its vastness. It was only a matter of time before they began to wonder if life similar to ours could exist on the ...

Researchers at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute have spent decades scanning the cosmos for any sign proving that humanity is not alone. Considering the unfathomable ...

The billions of stars in the night sky can give rise to the question, are we alone in the universe? The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) seeks to answer that question by hunting for ...

Is there intelligent life in the universe? There are only two possible answers to this question. Either Earth is the only planet with sentient life in the cosmos, or there are other civilizations out ...

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Brenda McCowan at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine is working with researchers at the SETI Institute to study communication with humpback whales. (Mark Malleson/Getty Images) A team of ...

The real-life astronomer who inspired the central character in "Contact," the book and movie about the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, is retiring from her research post at the age of 68.