The SETI Institute’s search for alien biosignatures and technosignatures depends on radio telescopes. You may have seen the ...

Dr. Ginny Gulick examines erosional features on Mars, looking for the tell-tale signs of running water in Mars’ geological history. Some of the meandering valley networks that lace the landscape may ...

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 ...

For 40 years, the SETI Institute has been a leader in the search for life and intelligence beyond Earth. Recent discoveries, such as exoplanets, have brought us closer than ever to answering the ...

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 ...

The SETI Institute partners with Unistellar, a company that intends to reinvent popular astronomy through the development of the Enhanced Vision Telescope (eVscope), a mass-market digital scope that ...

The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)-compliant NASA EMS/MWA curriculum unit was written for classroom delivery by teachers participating in the NASA AAA professional development program.

Igniting Minds, One Star at a Time! The SETI Institute’s Astronomy Activation Ambassadors (AAA) program is one of XX education projects funded by NASA’s Science Mission Directorate for Science ...

In 1974, the most powerful broadcast ever deliberately beamed into space was made from Puerto Rico. The broadcast formed part of the ceremonies held to mark a major upgrade to the Arecibo Radio ...

In 1960, radio astronomer Frank D. Drake, then at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Green Bank, West Virginia, carried out humanity's first modern attempt to detect interstellar radio ...

Shooting stars are nature’s atmospheric fireworks display. Whether this phenomenon can bring luck or love is open to debate, but the true origin is linked to the story of our Solar System. Meteors are ...