Artistic illustration of the internal structure of a lava planet in a cold state, showing a day‑side magma ocean overlain by a mineral atmosphere. The arrows indicate the direction of heat transport ...
As their name suggests, “forever chemicals” have extraordinary staying power. When these nearly indestructible compounds find their way into our soil and water, they don’t break down for hundreds or ...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured this sparkling scene of star birth in an image released on Sept. 4, 2025. Called Pismis 24, this young star cluster resides in the core of the nearby Lobster ...
Seen from space, many intriguing features are found on the worlds of our solar system, from ancient craters on Earth to dunes on Mars, Saturn's hexagon, and Io's volcanoes. Now, we can add ...
Artist’s interpretation of an array of pulsars being affected by gravitational ripples produced by a supermassive black hole binary in a distant galaxy. Credit: NSF/NANOGrav/Sonoma State ...
Figure 1: A giant volcano hiding in plain sight in one of Mars’ most iconic regions. The newly discovered giant volcano on Mars is located just south of the planet’s equator, in Eastern Noctis ...
The Cosmic Chronicles Literary Prize is a new initiative from the SETI Institute’s Artist in Residence (AIR) program. Cosmic Chronicles is a contest for emerging writers of all ages whose work ...
UPDATE: On December 1, 2020, the Arecibo Observatory collapsed following its decommissioning by the National Science Foundation the previous month. No injuries were reported. For a half-century, it ...
November 8, 2023, Mountain View, CA – The SETI Institute, a non-profit scientific research organization, announced today a philanthropic gift of $200m from the estate of Franklin Antonio, a visionary ...
The Very Large Array (VLA) is a collection of 27 radio antennas located at the NRAO site in Socorro, New Mexico. Each antenna in the array measures 25 meters (82 feet) in diameter and weighs about 230 ...
Waterfall plots of the eight signals of interest. Each panel has a width of 2,800 Hz and the x axes are referenced to the centre of the snippet where the signal is found, as reported in column 3 of ...
May 22, 2023, Mountain View, CA – What would happen if we received a message from an extraterrestrial civilization? Daniela de Paulis, an established interdisciplinary artist and licensed radio ...