Carl Sagan had a gift for translating complex scientific ideas into stories that sparked wonder and inspired generations, ...

Renowned astronomer, Dr. Jill Tarter, SETI Institute co-founder and pioneering SETI researcher, will be honored with the ...

Above: Takaya Okada (Japan) observes Comet C/2023 A3 with his EVSCOPE2. In the background you can see the comet tracing its ...

The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is the first radio telescope to be designed from the ground up to be used for SETI searches.Until its construction, all radio SETI efforts were dependent on the ...

The SETI Institute, a scientific research center dedicated to the search for life in the universe, is pleased to offer three ...

SETI Institute In the News The SETI Institute continues to push the boundaries of space exploration and our understanding of ...

SETI is a generic acronym that stands for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Scientists doing SETI experiments are looking for proof – not merely of life elsewhere – but of intelligent ...

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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 Carl Sagan Center for Research (CSC) brings together all the scientific research at the SETI Institute. Home to more than 75 scientists, the CSC conducts grant-funded research across nearly all ...

The new members bring expanded expertise in ethics, space communication, animal intelligence, extraterrestrial materials and planetary astronomy. November 12, 2024, Mountain View, CA - The SETI ...

Dr. Sofia Z. Sheikh is primarily a technosignature researcher, although she works on pulsars and radio frequency interference. She grew up in South Carolina, did her undergraduate work in physics and ...