They’ve got their 3Is on the prize. The highly anticipated data 3I/ATLAS’ Earth tour last month is in. A targeted scan of ...

The "Breakthrough Listen" initiative listened in on 1,300 star systems and found no sign of E.T. But the search is set to expand. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, is a numbers ...

Machine learning is quietly rewriting the rules of the cosmic hunt for company. Instead of waiting to recognize familiar ...

Join communications specialist Beth Johnson for a conversation with Dr. Anastasia Yanchilina, Frank Drake Postdoctoral Fellow at the SETI Institute, as we explore how life might emerge and/or be ...

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"The universe is a pretty big place. So if it's just us... seems like an awful waste of space," goes a line from the 1997 film "Contact." In the movie, Jodie Foster plays Dr. Ellie Arroway, a radio ...

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Gabriela Radulescu has received funding from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum as a Guggenheim Postdoctoral Fellow (2024-2025), from the American Institute of Physics for a Grant-in-Aid, ...

Long before scientists discovered that other stars in the universe host their own planetary systems, humanity had contemplated the existence of life beyond Earth. As our technology matured and we ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Gabriela Radulescu, Smithsonian Institution (THE CONVERSATION) As humans began to ...