SETI AIR alumnus Mike von der Nahmer has been selected as a resident artist in the Xu Bing Space Art Residency Program, part ...

Co-founder of the SETI Institute and Bernard M. Oliver Chair Emerita for SETI ...

Could Uranus’s moon Ariel have once harbored a vast, deep ocean beneath its icy crust—perhaps even one that still lingers today? This discovery expands the growing family of “ocean worlds”—planets and ...

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is brightening fast! Discovered in January by the Mount Lemmon Survey, it swings closest to Earth on ...

Join host Beth Johnson on SETI Live as she talks with Dr. Eric Boyd from the University of Montana about a groundbreaking discovery: microbes that can breathe in two ways at once! These extraordinary ...

Jon got his BS from UC Berkeley back in 2019 and his PhD from UCLA in 2025. For his dissertation, he worked on wavefront sensing with photonic devices, which could improve our ability to directly ...

Dr. Christina Richey is the Director for Partnerships and Business Development. Chrissy focuses on partnerships and large-scale funding initiatives by cultivating relationships with government ...

Artist’s interpretation of two massive black holes (MBHs) within a galaxy. A tidal disruption event unfolds around the MBH ...

Research Interest: Astrobiology, biosensor engineering, advanced nanomaterials for pathogen detection, and AI-driven data science for life sciences. My current work focuses on developing rapid ...

Dr. Kaltenegger is an award-winning astrophysicist and astrobiologist, the Founding Director of the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell, Professor in Astronomy at Cornell University, and author of Alien ...

Dwarf planet Ceres is depicted in these enhanced-color renderings, which utilize images from NASA’s Dawn mission. New thermal and chemical models that rely on the mission’s data indicate Ceres may ...