Are aliens real? The question has animated conspiracy theories for decades and enthralled at least one former president of the United States. In a recent interview, Barack Obama became the first ...

In the decades since NASA’s funding for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence was cut off by Congress, the SETI Institute took on the important work of seeking to answer the question: Are we ...

Bring up aliens and a lot of people will scoff. But not everyone is laughing. Around the turn of the century, 3.8 million people banded together in a real-time search for aliens -- with screensavers.

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From tracking a rare interstellar visitor to revealing hidden star systems, the SETI Institute is at the forefront of space science. Explore four recent stories showcasing our role in groundbreaking ...

The interstellar object designated 3I/ATLAS is hurtling out of our solar system right now, an unremarkable fact that should close the book on its two-year journey across the cosmos. Yet, for a ...

A lack of funding has forced California's SETI Institute--that's the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence--to put its Allen Telescope Array into "hibernation," according to a letter CEO Tom ...

August 14, 2025, Mountain View, CA -- The SETI Institute awarded the Davie Postdoctoral Fellowship for AI/ML-driven exoplanet discovery to Isabel Angelo. Machine learning is changing the way we search ...

Astronomers at the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute have learned to read the subtle "twinkle" of a distant cosmic lighthouse, revealing how interstellar space distorts radio ...