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 ...

We share some incredible images this week, featuring a range of spacecraft. NASA's MRO finds a new crater on Mars, ESA's ...

This month saw the official launch of the Planetary Futures Public Art Residency and welcomed our newest artist in residence, Adrien Segal. Adrien weaves together science, landscape, data, and ...

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.

Saturn’s icy moon, Enceladus. Image credit: dottedhippo, Getty Images. Cassini’s extended mission enabled measurements of winter–summer temperature differences Thermal anomalies at the north pole ...

The SETI Institute’s Artist in Residence (AIR) program announced that American artist Adrien Segal is the recipient of the Planetary Futures Public Art Residency. This research-creation residency ...