Base Camp Infrastructure on the ice at Lake Untersee, Antarctica — Dale Andersen. Field Season: January–February 2026 focused ...

The Volantids meteor shower was detected in the southern hemisphere during New Year's Eve 2025 ...

Throughout December, the SETI Institute appeared across leading science and media outlets, reflecting the SETI Institute’s ...

What: Ultraviolet observations of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS captured by NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft while the ...

This image shows a new impact crater on Mars that formed between July and September 2018. It's notable because it occurred in the seasonal southern ice cap and has apparently punched through it, ...

The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS was discovered on July 1, 2025. There is currently no evidence to suggest that it is anything other than a natural astrophysical object. However, given the small ...

In November, SETI Institute researchers contributed expert perspective to media stories on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS and recent experiments testing the survival of plant life in space. The coverage ...

December 16, 2025, Mountain View, CA -- The Cosmic Chronicles Literary Award is a new contest for emerging authors from the SETI Institute’s Artist in Residence (AIR) program. This summer, we launched ...

These polar dunes on Mars show both carbon dioxide frost (the white colored areas) along with darker material that’s been exposed due to sublimation, and is blown by the wind to form these dark spots.