The Wow! Literary Award comes with a $1,000 award and publication on the SETI Institute’s website. Deadline is September 10, ...

The Virtual Planetary Laboratory (VPL), one of NASA’s flagship astrobiology research teams, has officially joined the SETI ...

Now, an international team of researchers reports in the journal Science Advances that a short time later, a more than ...

Fifty years ago, on July 20, 1976, Viking 1 became the first spacecraft to successfully land and operate on Mars, transforming our understanding of the Red Planet and launching a new era of planetary ...

This week, we explore worlds in the making, from the first-ever evidence of moons forming around a distant exoplanet to ...

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and poets working in literature, speculative fiction/sci-fi, experimental poetry, and philosophy to submit original, unpublished creative work that reflects and ...

Throughout June 2026, SETI Institute scientists, affiliates, and collaborators contributed to discussions spanning ...

Half a century after the first successful Mars landing, Viking's greatest legacy may be the questions it taught us to ask.

Two SETI Institute planetary scientists now have asteroids bearing their names, an honor! The International Astronomical ...

John Rummel is a Senior Scientist with the SETI Institute. He retired as a Professor of Biology at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, and formerly was a Visiting Scholar at McGill ...

Cropped image of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observation of comet 3I/ATLAS with its Near-Infrared Spectrograph ...