Explore how scientists uncover the stories of distant worlds, from wind-carved landscapes at Martian dawn to the stellar ...

Returning to Antarctica: SETI Institute astrobiologist Dale Andersen is preparing for his second expedition to Lake Untersee ...

Red dots are the Orionids, blue dots are the Taurids meteor showers. Electronic Telegram No. 5758 Central Bureau for ...

An illustration of a protoplanetary disk; (inset) an artist's rendition of the James Webb Space Telescope. Image credit: ESA/NASA, the AVO project and Paolo Padovani. NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space ...

Planets are usually associated with stars, but the physics of planet formation may not be limited to star systems. Their simulations suggest these objects could begin around Jupiter's mass and ...

For decades, astronomers have been looking for moons beyond our Solar System. Several exomoon candidates have been proposed, but none has become an unambiguous, confirmed example. This object differs ...

Full sun views from different NASA solar cameras of a failed solar eruption from data collected in March 2024. Credit: Tingyu Gou A solar eruption begins to rise from the Sun. Then, instead of ...

September 8, 2026, Mountain View, CA— The next breakthrough in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence may come not from a radio telescope, but from a microscope. A new study led by SETI ...

ETH Zurich and the SETI Institute in California are both researching how life originates and whether it exists beyond Earth. The partnership will support a new ETH assistant professorship in the ...

A stony meteorite in NASA Ames Research Center's Arcjet Interaction Heating Facility. A thin black line outlines the holder that supports the stone (left). Air flow is from left to right. Melt flows ...

August 25, 2026, Mountain View, CA -- Planets form from disks of gas and dust around young stars, but the gas needed for growth does not last forever. New observations from NASA’s James Webb Space ...

Wow! Literary Award invites writers and poets working in literature, speculative fiction/sci-fi, experimental poetry, and philosophy to submit original, unpublished creative work that reflects and ...