The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is helping scientists uncover how planets form by advancing understanding of their birthplaces and the circumstellar disks surrounding young stars, in a paper published […]
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SETI Institute Employs SETI Ellipsoid Technique for Searching for Signals from Distant Civilizations
In a paper published in the Astronomical Journal, a team of researchers from the SETI Institute, Berkeley SETI Research Center and the University of Washington reported an exciting development for […]
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The Asteroid That Impacted Near Berlin Has Been Identified As A Rare Aubrite
The official classification now aligns with what many suspected from merely looking at the images of the strange meteorites that fell near Berlin on January 21, 2024. They belong to […]
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COSMIC: Breakthrough Technology For The Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence
In a groundbreaking cosmic quest, the SETI Institute’s Commensal Open-Source Multimode Interferometer Cluster (COSMIC) at the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) is expanding the search for extraterrestrial intelligence […]
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Whale-SETI: Groundbreaking Encounter With Humpback Whales Reveals Potential For Nonhuman Intelligence communication
A team of scientists from the SETI Institute, University of California Davis and the Alaska Whale Foundation, had a close encounter with a non-human (aquatic) intelligence.
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SETI Institute Unveils Two Prestigious Postdoctoral Fellowships: The Baruch S. Blumberg Fellowship And The William J. Welch Fellowship
The SETI Institute announced today the establishment of a new postdoctoral research fellowship program funded by its transformative bequest from Qualcomm Co-founder, Franklin Antonio.
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Dale Andersen’s 1996 Antarctic Field Research Photo Albums
Editor’s November 2023 note: This is a revised version of the original website that was first posted – from Antarctica – in 1996.
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SETI Institute: $200m Gift Propels Scientific Research in the Search for Life Beyond Earth
The SETI Institute, a non-profit scientific research organization, announced today a philanthropic gift of $200m from the estate of Franklin Antonio, a visionary supporter and catalyst of the work of […]
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Pascal Lee Awarded the 2023 Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization
The SETI Institute is delighted to announce that Dr. Pascal Lee will be honored with the 2023 Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization presented by Wonderfest.
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Uranus Aurora Discovery Offers Clues To Habitable Icy Worlds
The presence of an infrared aurora on the cold, outer planet of Uranus has been confirmed for the first time by University of Leicester astronomers.