NASA'S Kepler Mission Awarded Mission Extension

­NASA's Kepler mission has been approved for extension through fiscal year 2016 based on a recommendation from the agency¹s Senior Review of its operating missions.

SOS: Save our Science!

The planetary science budget is under attack! Many of the most amazing and successful scientific discoveries of the past few decades have come from NASA’s planetary exploration program. But now the future of planetary science is in jeopardy!

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You can find a real estate agent who saves you money and generate a big, zero-cost donation to the SETI Institute the next time you buy or sell a home.

SETI Institute Teams with Zooniverse to Launch SETILive.org to Empower Citizen Scientists

As part of the TED Prize Wish made by renowned astronomer Jill Tarter, the TED Prize today launches SETI Live (setilive.org): a site where – for the first time – the public can view data being collected by radio telescopes and collectively help search for intelligent life on other planets.

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.

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: That's so Random! ENCORE We crave order in things, but we can’t iron out every chaotic crease, nor would we want to: from brain cell activity to the evolution of species, discover why randomness is essential for success.

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.