The SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array (ATA) recently played host to 16 scientists, engineers, and technologists who gathered for a three-day "hackathon" to develop novel capabilities for the ...

Due to funding cuts, SETI’s Allen Radio Telescope Array will no longer be scanning the skies for signs of intelligent life. All the group needs is $5 million to keep working. Sound like a lot? Not ...

A comet from another star system does not arrive every year. That is part of what made 3I/ATLAS so compelling when it appeared in July 2025.

Let the search for extraterrestrial life resume! Back in April, the SETI Allen Telescope Array was shut down due to lack of funding. Now, the institute’s search for extraterrestrial life is set to ...

While telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) can detect the chemical fingerprints of distant atmospheres, ...

Today, April 11, 2006, The Planetary Society dedicated a new optical telescope at an observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts — one designed solely to search for light ...

With new technologies come new opportunities. And that is especially true in astronomy—with every new advanced telescope, we ...

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Avalanche is expanding beyond finance into space data, with SkyMapper launching a network that turns telescope observations into verifiable records, including live input from the SETI Institute. The ...

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI(Opens in a new window)) Institute's Allen Telescope Array (ATA(Opens in a new window)), located at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory, California, has ...

The “Wow!” signal is one of our best pieces of evidence for aliens, but researchers are building a compelling case for a more ...