The SETI Institute awarded the first Frank Drake Postdoctoral Fellowship to Dr. Anastasia Yanchilina. Yanchilina will focus ...

SETI Institute In the News The SETI Institute continues to push the boundaries of space exploration and the search for ...

Astrobiology is a multidisciplinary scientific field that seeks to understand the potential for life beyond Earth. It ...

“There are three instances (all realizations about the sky before I was 12): First was when as a child, enthralled with the rockets of the space program, I realized that Mercury astronauts Shepard, ...

Understanding where Earth's essential elements came from—and why some are missing—has long puzzled scientists. Now, a new ...

Darwin Day is an annual celebration recognized internationally in honor of the birthday and legacy of the historically ...

NASA will provide an update on science results from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, January 29, which delivered a sample of ...

Discover how scientists blend biology, synthetic biology, and astrobiology to speculate on alien life forms, focusing on the shared characteristics that might transcend Earth's biosphere. One of the b ...

Dipartimento di Chimica and Nanostructured Interfaces and Surfaces (NIS) Centre, Università degli Studi di Torino, via P. Giuria 7, Torino 10125, Italy ...

In 1974 a group of scientists beamed a message into space. The message, meant to be received by an intelligent alien species, described life on Earth. 'Never Miss a Super Bowl Club:' These ...

Few Earth science concepts are as controversial and enticing as the Gaia hypothesis—the idea, first introduced by chemist James Lovelock and microbiologist Lynn Margulis in the 1970s, that Earth ...