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REU -Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates Program in Astrobiology and Planetary Science

Pending successful receipt of renewal funds from the NSF, the SETI Institute intends to offer a 2012 REU program in Astrobiology and Planetary Science. Application is open now.

SETI Search Resumes at Allen Telescope Array, Targeting New Planets

The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is once again searching planetary systems for signals that would be evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence. Among its first targets are some of the exoplanet candidates recently discovered by NASA’s Kepler space telescope.

Introducing the "SETI-ficate"

Make a contribution to science and get a limited edition, hand drawn SETI-ficate personalized to keep, give, or pay tribute to someone special. Minimum $5 donation per SETI-ficate, but you can get as many as you like!

Lutetia: a Rare Survivor from the Birth of the Earth

New observations indicate that the asteroid Lutetia is a leftover fragment of the same original material that formed the Earth, Venus and Mercury. Astronomers have combined data from ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft, ESO’s New Technology Telescope, and NASA telescopes.

SETIStars - Preparing to Re-start the ATA

Continue your support as we complete the final stages to resume scanning the skies for signs of intelligent life.

Weekly Colloquium at the SETI Institute

Attend a colloquium! They are FREE, open to the public and held from noon to 1pm, every Wednesday, or select evening talks at 7 pm.

Big Picture Science Radio

This week: Skeptic Check: Energy Vortex The science behind “mysterious energy” at fabled locales, from magnetic poles to haunted houses.

The Allen Telescope Array

The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is a "Large Number of Small Dishes" (LNSD) array designed to be highly effective for “commensal” (simultaneous) surveys of conventional radio astronomy projects and SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) observations at centimeter wavelengths.

The Secrets of Asteroid Minerva and its Two Moons

Since the discovery of its two moons, the triple asteroid Minerva has been the focus of space and ground-based telescope studies that have attempted to unravel the secrets of this intriguing system. A multiple-telescope campaign has now revealed that Minerva is unusually round for an asteroid, and has a possibly unique structure.

Drake Equation

How can we estimate the number of technological civilizations that might exist among the stars? While working as a radio astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia, Dr. Frank Drake (currently on the Board of the SETI Institute) conceived an approach to bound the terms involved in estimating the number of technological civilizations that may exist in our galaxy.