People have been looking up at the Milky Way for thousands of years, marveling at its vastness. It was only a matter of time before they began to wonder if life similar to ours could exist on the ...

April 23, 2025, Mountain View, CA – The SETI Institute will recognize Dr. Joseph Twicken, Senior Data Scientist at the SETI Institute, with its 2025 Carl Sagan Center (CSC) Director’s Award. Now ...

Humans have been searching for signs of extraterrestrial life for more than a century, funding international efforts to search for signals from distant planets, launch probes, and build bigger and ...

You can knock a good telescope out, but you can't keep it down. Using data from the now-destroyed Arecibo radio telescope, scientists from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute ...

The SETI Institute recently began searching for signs of advanced extraterrestrial civilizations in distant galaxies outside our own. The research comes at a time when the notion that strange crafts ...

DOWN AND OUT: Survivors of the 2012 Seti flood at Kharapani. Only the elderly and children are left in the village. Photo: DURGA RANA MAGAR It was a bright Saturday morning on 5 May 2012, and Capt ...

In 1960, astronomer Frank Drake pointed the Green Bank Observatory’s giant radio telescope at two Sun-like stars for 150 hours hoping to find a hint of alien life. Drake’s search was unsuccessful but ...

If aliens are synchronizing their signals with light coming from supernova 1987A, then the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is on the case. Scientists with the institution say they may ...

Brenda McCowan at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine is working with researchers at the SETI Institute to study communication with humpback whales. (Mark Malleson/Getty Images) A team of ...

Researchers at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute have spent decades scanning the cosmos for any sign proving that humanity is not alone. Considering the unfathomable ...

The search for extraterrestrial civilizations has gotten a major boost as SETI joins forces with the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) near Socorro, New Mexico. It ...

Excel macros let you automate repetitive tasks for substantial time savings. Here’s how to put them to work for you. If you regularly work with Excel spreadsheets, you probably find yourself repeating ...