New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder to detect.

In a recent SETI Live conversation, astronomer and Drake Award winner Dr. Jason Wright addressed that question through the ...

In March 2026, SETI Institute researchers contributed to a wide range of conversations about our solar system and the search ...

A recent SETI Institute study suggests that space weather could blur and weaken extraterrestrial radio signals long before they reach us.

Follow up observations never found a repeat, which only deepened the mystery. The signal’s narrow bandwidth and intensity looked exactly like the kind of artificial tone that early SETI papers had ...

One of the longest-standing techniques in humanity’s search for life beyond Earth may be causing scientists to miss alien signals entirely, a new study finds. Since the very beginnings of the search ...

April 22, 2025, Mountain View, CA – The SETI Institute announced it will expand its pilot program funded through a grant from the Amateur Radio and Digital Communication (ARDC) Foundation now called ...

Discover the mysterious ‘Wow!’ signal, a 1977 transmission that sparked decades of speculation about extraterrestrial life.

June 18, 2025, Mountain View, CA -- The SETI Institute and SpaceX have launched a groundbreaking collaboration to help protect sensitive radio astronomy observations at the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) ...

The recent, widely covered signal that's allegedly got SETI hot and bothered is almost certainly not aliens. But that doesn't mean it's not cool. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X ...

The search for extraterrestrial life in this vast universe needs all hands on deck. A crowd-sourced project from UC Berkeley called on volunteers to lend their home computers to search for signs of ...