SETI Institute
For 40 years, the SETI Institute has been a leader in the search for life and intelligence beyond Earth. Recent discoveries, such as exoplanets, have brought us closer than ever to answering the question of whether we are alone in the universe. To honor the Institute’s pioneering past as we look ahead to its future, Big Picture Science ...
SETI
Jun 25, 2024 · SETI is an acronym for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. It is an effort to detect evidence of technological civilizations that may exist elsewhere in the universe, particularly in our Galaxy. There are potentially billions of locations outside our Solar System that may host life. With our current technology, we have some ability to discover evidence of cosmic …
Drake Equation - SETI Institute
Nov 19, 2022 · Understanding the Drake Equation This simple formulation is generally agreed to be the “second most-famous equation in science (after E= mc 2),” and you can find it in nearly every astronomy textbook.. The Drake Equation was cooked up by astronomer Frank Drake in 1961 to serve as the agenda for the first meeting on the topic of SETI. In 1960, Drake had …
About - SETI Institute
The SETI Institute. is a non-profit research organization, located in the Silicon Valley close to the NASA Ames Research Center. Our mission is to lead humanity's quest to understand the origins and prevalence of life and intelligence in the universe and share that knowledge with the world. The Institute began small, with just one project ...
SETI Research - SETI Institute
SETI 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 beings in other star systems.
How Many Habitable Planets are Out There? - SETI Institute
October 29, 2020, Mountain View, CA – Thanks to new research using data from the Kepler space telescope, it’s estimated that there could be as many as 300 million potentially habitable planets in our galaxy. Some could even be pretty close, with several likely within 30 light-years of our Sun. The findings will be published in The Astronomical Journal, and research was a …
WHAT IS AN EXOPLANET? - SETI Institute
Nov 10, 2020 · The prefix exo is short for extrasolar, meaning beyond the Sun, so exoplanets are just planets that orbit stars other than our Sun. The planets in our solar system, to scale in terms of size, but not distance. Credit: WP via Wikipedia. As of October 1, 2020, we’ve discovered 4,354 exoplanets in 3,218 planetary systems.
News - SETI Institute
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SETI | SETI Institute
The SETI Institute’s first project was to conduct a search for narrow-band radio transmissions that would betray the existence of technically competent beings elsewhere in the galaxy. Today, the SETI Institute uses a specially designed instrument for its SETI efforts – the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) located in the Cascade Mountains of ...
Carl Sagan Center for Research - SETI Institute
Frank Drake Postdoctoral Fellowship. The SETI Institute is pleased to announce the call for applications to the 2025 Frank Drake Postdoctoral Fellowship focusing on “Innovation in the Search for Life in the Universe," covering a wide range of fields including: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrobiology, Climate and Biogeosciences, Exoplanets, Planetary Exploration, …