#SETI Institute

Author: Lisa Grossman / Source: Science News Neptune’s smallest moon may be a chunk of a neighboring moon that was knocked off by a comet. One of seven moons that orbit closer to Neptune than the planet’s largest moon, Triton, the newly dubbed Hippocamp is just roughly 34 kilometers across,

Author: Lisa Grossman / Source: Science News Long an underfunded, fringe field of science, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence may be ready to go mainstream. Astronomer Jason Wright is determined to see that happen. At the American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle in January,

Author: Jesse Shanahan / Source: Forbes Although the search for extraterrestrial life typically focuses on the potential habitability of newly discovered exoplanets, humanity’s first contact might actually occur much closer to home. Unfortunately, while none of the Solar System’s other planets

Are we alone in the universe? We don’t know. But as Carl Sagan said, if we are, it seems like an awful waste of space. At Singularity University Global Summit, Jill Tarter, Bernard M. Oliver chair for SETI, discussed her mission to answer the question that’s haunted us as long as we’ve known enough

Scientists have now discovered a few thousand planets orbiting other stars and, based on these observations, believe there may be as many as 8.8 billion potentially habitable Earth-sized planets in the Milky Way alone. Include stars smaller than the sun and that number increases to 40 billion