In a special bonus SETI Live, communication specialist Beth Johnson welcomes astronomer and entrepreneur Franck Marchis to introduce SkyMapper, a new global network of smart telescopes and all-sky ...

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

What happens when a planet contains immense quantities of water but is far too hot for that water to remain liquid?

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

This month, we are continuing our profile series featuring our exceptional SETI AIR program Advisors. Meet Dorka Keehn, who has been part of the AIR program’s DNA for many years. Dorka is an ...

Mino in front of the infrared telescope being assembled in Japan. Deep inside is Mino’s core instrument, the FIRP. Image Credit: Hisako Matsubara. November 20, 2025, Mountain View, CA -- The SETI ...

Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have created the largest low-frequency radio colour image of the Milky Way ever assembled. This spectacular new image ...

The SETI Institute recently hosted the Joint IRIS and MUSE Science Team Meeting, bringing together more than 50 solar physicists from around the world for an intensive week of collaboration and ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. In a significant advance for astronomy, researchers from the Breakthrough Listen initiative, working in collaboration ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS was discovered on July 1, 2025, by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Chile. The designation “3I” marks it as the third confirmed interstellar object ...

Silicon monoxide gas detected by JWST signals the sublimation and recondensation of silicate dust into crystalline minerals. These minerals combine into pebbles, the earliest building blocks of ...