This year marks the inaugural launch of the Cosmic Chronicles Literary Award, and it has been thrilling to witness the global enthusiasm for this new initiative. Submissions have come in from around ...

Under the tropical skies of Puerto Rico, a new observatory joined the LaserSETI Network, expanding the SETI Institute’s ability to search for technosignatures. Bringing cutting-edge instruments to an ...

As their name suggests, “forever chemicals” have extraordinary staying power. When these nearly indestructible compounds find their way into our soil and water, they don’t break down for hundreds or ...

Some asteroids are more dangerous than others, according to a report issued this week in Nature Astronomy by an international team of researchers, led by astrophysicist Auriane Egal of the Montreal ...

Artistic illustration of the internal structure of a lava planet in a cold state, showing a day‑side magma ocean overlain by a mineral atmosphere. The arrows indicate the direction of heat transport ...

Overview: In its 19th year, the SETI Institute’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) welcomed 12 students for summer 2025 to work alongside scientists on projects ranging from exoplanet ...

Seen from space, many intriguing features are found on the worlds of our solar system, from ancient craters on Earth to dunes on Mars, Saturn's hexagon, and Io's volcanoes. Now, we can add ...

Artist’s interpretation of an array of pulsars being affected by gravitational ripples produced by a supermassive black hole binary in a distant galaxy. Credit: NSF/NANOGrav/Sonoma State ...

Figure 1: A giant volcano hiding in plain sight in one of Mars’ most iconic regions. The newly discovered giant volcano on Mars is located just south of the planet’s equator, in Eastern Noctis ...

Researchers, including Dr. Mark Showalter and Dr. Matthew Tiscareno of the SETI Institute, along with colleagues at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), discovered a previously unknown moon ...

This month, the SETI Institute made headlines across science and culture, highlighting new frontiers in our understanding of life on Earth, in space, and what it means to search for life. Citizen ...

The Cosmic Chronicles Literary Prize is a new initiative from the SETI Institute’s Artist in Residence (AIR) program. Cosmic Chronicles is a contest for emerging writers of all ages whose work ...