By combining the efforts of professional and citizen scientists, the study of cosmic cataclysms expands our understanding of the universe’s extraordinary phenomena. In an unprecedented…
How would the Earth look like to an extraterrestrial civilization situated light years away? A collaborative study conducted by a group of scientists from the…
Cornell University’s Akshay Suresh is leading the Breakthrough Listen Investigation for Periodic Spectral Signals (BLIPSS), a project focused on detecting repetitive signals from the Milky…
A Sign in Space imagines how Earth might respond to a signal from aliens and invites the public to help decode an ET message. What…
Wouldn’t discovering life on other worlds be made easier if we knew the exact locations to search? However, opportunities to collect samples or access remote…
The preservation of water ice at shallow depths and low latitudes on Mars would have significant implications for both scientific research and human exploration. Scientists…
Deep learning techniques uncovered previously unnoticed signals of interest in analyzed datasets. The search for technologically advanced extraterrestrial life raises the question, “where are they?”…
A new research hub examines how to respond to life beyond Earth. What does humanity do when we realize we aren’t alone in the universe? A…
Early Mars might have been a warm version of modern Titan and at least as promising, if not more promising, as a location for the…
Researchers report that they can detect showers from the debris in the path of comets that pass close to Earth orbit and return as infrequently…
An international team of researchers searched for pieces of a small asteroid tracked in space and then observed to impact Botswana on June 2, 2018….
Challenging assumptions about the possibility of modern life on Mars. In a comment recently published in Nature Astronomy, Dr. Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl…
A team of researchers led by SETI Institute Senior Research Scientist Janice Bishop, a member of the SETI Institute NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) team, has…
Help NASA find exoplanets, worlds beyond our solar system, through a newly launched website called Planet Patrol. This citizen science platform allows members of the…
Data from a massive search for cosmic radio emission released February 14, 2020, by the Breakthrough Listen Initiative — the most comprehensive survey yet of…
Analysis of a portion of the data looks at nearby stars that could see Earth transiting sun. On Friday (February 14, 2020), the Breakthrough Listen…
Artificial intelligence is invading many fields, most recently astronomy and the search for intelligent life in the universe, or SETI. Researchers at Breakthrough Listen, a…
Recent observations of a mysterious and distant object that emits intermittent bursts of radio waves so bright that they’re visible across the universe provide new…