SkyMapper and the SETI Institute have formed a strategic partnership to help SkyMapper build a decentralized telescope ...

SETI@home has been one of the largest citizen science projects ever, with millions of users around the world.

Tiny delays in pulsar signals measured by SETI scientists could aid the search for gravitational waves and extraterrestrial ...

New Board Member: alliant CEO Dhaval Jadav joins the SETI Institute Board of Directors, bringing passion for space science ...

A distant pulsar’s radio signal flickers as it passes through space, much like stars twinkle in Earth’s atmosphere. By monitoring this effect for 10 months, researchers watched the pattern slowly ...

For over two decades, millions of personal computers around the world have joined forces to scan radio signals from the ...

The search for extraterrestrial life in this vast universe needs all hands on deck. A crowd-sourced project from UC Berkeley ...

"Not a significant discovery," one SETI researcher says of mysterious signal. — -- News of a possible extra-terrestrial signal detection sent social media into a frenzy this week, but scientists ...

For 21 years, private computers analyzed data from space for traces of extraterrestrials. The most promising signals are now ...

The timing couldn't be worse, say SETI scientists. After millenniums of musings, this spring astronomers announced that 1,235 new possible planets had been observed by Kepler, a telescope on a space ...

What does it take to detect a radio signal sent by extraterrestrial life to Earth? Two decades of work involving radio ...

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