December 10, 2025, Mountain View, CA -- For 10 months, a SETI Institute–led team watched pulsar PSR J0332+5434 (also called B0329+54) to study how its radio signal "twinkles" as it passes through gas ...

If future missions confirm sustained heat flow at both poles, Enceladus would strengthen its position as one of the more accessible environments for detecting extraterrestrial life within the Solar ...

Advisors: Bettina Forget (AIR Director); Dorka Keehn; Danielle Siembieda; Dr. Nathalie Cabrol.

Targeting star systems identified by Kepler Space Telescope (especially those in habitable-zone candidate planets). Surveying a region near the Milky Way’s Galactic Center (where stellar density is ...

Gorgeous images of stellar nurseries are featured this week alongside some of the solar system's moons: Mars's Deimos, ...

This week we take a look at layers -- layers in nebulae, layers in the Martian atmosphere, and layers in our own atmosphere.

Project Phoenix was the world's most sensitive and comprehensive search for extraterrestrial intelligence that had been conducted up until approximately 2015. It was an effort to detect ...

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 ...

Dr. Sofia Sheikh is a Technosignature Research Scientist at the SETI Institute. She primarily works on technosignatures (SETI), fast radio bursts (FRBs), pulsars, and other observational radio ...

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