Recent media coverage highlights the wide range of research, education, and scientific perspectives emerging from the SETI Institute community. From teacher training programs that connect educators ...

Icy moons circling the outer planets may be far more dynamic—and explosive—than they appear. New research suggests that when ...

Saturn’s reign in the evening sky comes to an end on March 25, when Saturn passes behind the Sun (conjunction). Saturn then swings into the morning sky, and will reappear in the east at dawn during ...

In the early 1980s, Carolyn Porco was completing her doctorate in earth and space sciences when she joined the Voyager team as an imaging scientist. As part of that mission, she collaborated with Carl ...

New research shows that some frozen moons may hide boiling oceans beneath their icy shells, shaping strange surface features.

Solar storms around distant stars may be erasing alien radio signals before we ever hear them In A Nutshell Stellar winds and ...

A new study proposes that a crash between Titan and another moon spawned Hyperion and, much later, destabilized Saturn’s ...

A University of Arizona-led team using a camera orbiting Mars has captured the closest images yet of an interstellar comet so rare that it has sparked wild speculation about its alien origins. The ...