Our First Quarter 2026 Activity Report captures the discoveries, collaborations, educational initiatives, and public outreach ...

Cropped image of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observation of comet 3I/ATLAS with its Near-Infrared Spectrograph ...

From a marathon milestone on Mars to a sky filled with satellite trails above Chile’s deserts, this week’s collection ...

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

The powerful gene editing tool CRISPR is already being tested on animal and plant cells. It has even been used on humans. How might this revolutionary tool change our lives? On the one hand, it could ...

What happens if scientists find evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence? That question was at the center of a recent SETI Live discussion about newly updated post-detection protocols and how ...

JWST successfully observed the extremely faint near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 (circled in green) on 18 February 2026 with its Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). By analyzing the asteroid’s position relative ...

While JWST reveals the ancient universe billions of years old, SkyMapper focuses on today’s changing cosmos — tracking near-Earth asteroids, meteors, comets, satellites, and transient events that ...

Juice observed 3I/ATLAS during perihelion, when Earth-based telescopes could not. Spectroscopic observations measured water in the comet's coma, while imaging tracked the evolution of its dust and ion ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the asteroid Dimorphos was taken on 19 December 2022, nearly four months after the asteroid was impacted by NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) ...

The scientists, educators and outreach professionals of the SETI Institute had yet another banner year of productivity in 2017. We are delighted to present our 2nd annual report, cataloging the ...