2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1676+ words) For decades, astronomers have been looking for moons beyond our Solar System. Several exomoon candidates have been proposed, but none has become an unambiguous, confirmed example. In a recent SETI Live conversation, host Dr. Franck Marchis spoke with Universidad Diego…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (337+ words) Earth’s Moon (North Polar Mosaic) Taken by the Galileo spacecraft. Credits: NASA/JPL/USGS. September 8, 2026, Mountain View, CA— The next breakthrough in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence may come not from a radio telescope, but from a microscope. A new…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1487+ words) Full sun views from different NASA solar cameras of a failed solar eruption from data collected in March 2024. Credit: Tingyu Gou A solar eruption begins to rise from the Sun. Then, instead of continuing outward, it stops. Why? What makes…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (167+ words) New observations from JWST suggest that some of Neptune’s small inner moons may be the remnants of much larger icy worlds that were destroyed billions of years ago. Using JWST, researchers studied Neptune’s rings and three of its inner moons…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (794+ words) SETI Institute scientist Uma Gorti co-authors one of the largest JWST studies of how planet-forming disks lose their gas A representation of a young star surrounded by a protoplanetary disk of gas and dust. The winds from the center represent…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (847+ words) Analysis of the atmospheric passage of 75 meteorite falls identifies seven distinct processes as space rocks melt, fragment and slow before they fall as meteorites "We used to think that solid rocks would evaporate from the enormous heat and brilliant light…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (172+ words) SETI Institute Look Up: A Lunar Eclipse on August 27 On the evening of August 27, most of the Moon will move into Earth’s shadow, creating a partial lunar eclipse that people across the United States can see. At its peak, 96% of…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (513+ words) Figure Credit: Pablo Sobron August 19, 2026, Mountain View, CA — Before people can mine resources on the Moon, asteroids, or Mars, they need to answer a few key questions: What is there? How much is there? And where can it be found?...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (146+ words) Why do some eruptions from the Sun blast into space while others never make it? Join us for SETI Live on August 20 at 2:30 pm PDT, when SETI Institute heliophysicist Dr. Becca Robinson talks with Dr. Kathy Reeves of the Center…...