We all know Mars is called “The Red Planet,” but have you ever stopped to wonder—why is it red? The classic joke explanation ...

What if we spend decades building advanced telescopes to search for life on other planets and come up empty-handed? A recent ...

In April 2019, rare primitive meteorites fell near the town of Aguas Zarcas in northern Costa Rica. In an article published ...

The SETI Institute announced today two recipients for the 2025 Drake Award: Dr. David Deamer (University of California, Santa ...

Dr. Turnbull is an astrobiologist whose expertise is in identifying planetary systems that are capable of supporting life as we know it. She developed a Catalog of Habitable Stellar Systems for use in ...

I received my BS in physics and astronomy at the University of Minnesota in 2005. I went to Caltech for grad school, where I had the fortune to be advised by the late Steve Ostro and by Shri Kulkarni, ...

SETI is a generic acronym that stands for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Scientists doing SETI experiments are looking for proof – not merely of life elsewhere – but of intelligent ...

John Giannandrea is Apple's Chief of Machine Learning and AI Strategy. John joined Apple in 2018 and oversees the strategy for artificial intelligence and machine learning across the company and the ...

Project Phoenix was the world's most sensitive and comprehensive search for extraterrestrial intelligence that had been conducted up until approximately 2015. It was an effort to detect ...

In 1974, the most powerful broadcast ever deliberately beamed into space was made from Puerto Rico. The broadcast formed part of the ceremonies held to mark a major upgrade to the Arecibo Radio ...

Amaresh Kollipara is an Emmy-nominated VR producer and space industry executive with a multidisciplinary background. He recently led a project called Mission:ISS at Facebook's VR company Oculus. This ...