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?

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 ...

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Recipient of one of the 2004 Grants in Honor of Professor Henri Chretien (AAS, September 2004) In April 2007, the asteroid numbered 1989SO8 was named “(6639) Marchis” in honor of his work in the field ...

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 ...

What were the chemical processes that started life on Earth? Biochemist Art Weber is trying to answer this question by studying prebiotically plausible chemical reactions in the lab – reactions that ...

In the summer of 1950, several scientists were discussing extraterrestrial intelligence over lunch. Responding to the claim that intelligent life must be commonplace throughout the universe, the Nobel ...

Is there some evidence suggesting that humans are the Galaxy’s only intelligent species? Enrico Fermi thought so – and he was a pretty smart guy. Could he be right? In 1950, the famous physicist made ...

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 ...

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 ...

What is the Allen Telescope Array? The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is located at the Hat Creek Observatory in the Cascade Mountains of California, approximately 300 miles to the north of San Francisco ...