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 ...

This week, we celebrate fifty years since Viking 1 became the first spacecraft to successfully land on and photograph the ...

Half a century after the first successful Mars landing, Viking's greatest legacy may be the questions it taught us to ask.

Throughout June 2026, SETI Institute scientists, affiliates, and collaborators contributed to discussions spanning ...

Looking ahead: Existing radio surveys may contain signals that were never recognized as potential technosignatures. New ...

The Virtual Planetary Laboratory (VPL), one of NASA’s flagship astrobiology research teams, has officially joined the SETI ...

The Wow! Literary Award comes with a $1,000 award and publication on the SETI Institute’s website. Deadline is September 10, ...

Wow! Literary Award invites writers and poets working in literature, speculative fiction/sci-fi, experimental poetry, and philosophy to submit original, unpublished creative work that reflects and ...

Experience live eclipse coverage from the path of totality, conversations with SETI Institute scientists, and a performance by the world's first orchestra composed of astronauts, scientists, engineers ...

This image is quite extraordinary, and it's not the big disk that's attracting the most attention. Although the large planet-forming disk around the star PDS 70 is clearly imaged and quite interesting ...