AlUla is now LaserSETI’s first observing site in Asia, helping to expand a growing global network that watches the night sky.

Explore how scientists uncover the stories of distant worlds, from wind-carved landscapes at Martian dawn to the stellar ...

Red dots are the Orionids, blue dots are the Taurids meteor showers. Electronic Telegram No. 5758 Central Bureau for ...

Returning to Antarctica: SETI Institute astrobiologist Dale Andersen is preparing for his second expedition to Lake Untersee ...

An illustration of a protoplanetary disk; (inset) an artist's rendition of the James Webb Space Telescope. Image credit: ESA/NASA, the AVO project and Paolo Padovani. NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space ...

Hurricane Melissa swirls south of Jamaica in this view captured from the International Space Station in October 2025. As Earth experiences a strong El Niño, satellites are helping scientists ...

ESA’s Smile mission has captured its first ultraviolet image of Earth’s northern aurora, revealing the glowing oval during an auroral substorm. Smile’s Ultraviolet Imager captured the image, observing ...

The night sky stretches above ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, one of the world’s premier locations for ground-based astronomy. This view was captured beside Paranal’s Visitor ...

September 29, 2026, Mountain View, CA — The SETI Institute has welcomed three new postdoctoral fellows: Mino Fellow L. Felipe Benites and Frank Drake Fellows Genesis Berlanga and Dingshan Deng. Their ...

The talk is part of the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series, now in its 28th year. For thousands of years, we’ve wondered if the Earth is unique, or if there are other Earths out there to find. In ...

A new crater on the Moon is helping scientists understand what happens when an object strikes the lunar surface—and how far the impact's effects can reach. The Moon's surface is covered in regolith, a ...

Healthy rivers and riparian ecosystems are teaming with life, but should rivers themselves be considered alive? The question is central to the growing rights-of-nature movement that claims that ...