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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dear friends, The whole world has watched in horror as massive fires rage out of control in southern California. While the ...

Have you heard about LaserSETI, a SETI Institute project to search for lasers originating from extraterrestrial intelligence?

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 ...

Juan Martinez-Sykora is interested in developing models for the solar atmosphere and comparing them to observations. In particular, He is interested in the effects of neutrals on chromospheric physics ...

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

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 ...

Owls are both the most accessible and elusive of birds. Every child can recognize one, but you’ll be lucky to spot an owl in a tree, even if you’re looking straight at it. Besides their camouflage and ...