Big Picture Science Radio Show - Exoplanets

You may be unique, but is your home planet? Why the astronomer who’s discovered hundreds of exoplanets is hopeful about the hunt for alien life. Also, the next generation of planet-hunting instruments.

Zoë Robot Returns To Chile's Atacama Desert On NASA Mission To Search For Subsurface Life

The autonomous, solar-powered Zoë robot, which became the first robot to map microbial life during a 2005 field expedition in Chile’s Atacama Desert, is heading back to the world’s driest desert this month on a NASA astrobiology mission led by Carnegie Mellon University and the SETI Institute.

SETI Institute Artist in Residence Program Presents Finding the Magic in the Machine & Earth Calling Basingstoke

Robert Henke - Is building tools just an exhausting necessity or an essential part of the artistic process? What is the relationship between intuition and engineering? Followed by a film screening: Earth Calling Basingstoke by Taghi Amirani, filmmaker and TED Senior Fellow

Exploration of the Titan Lakes

A SETI Institute Hangout with Nathalie Cabrol (Senior researcher at the Carl Sagan Center of the SETI Institute), Liam Pedersen (Senior Robotics Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley / NASA Ames Research Center), and Leslie E. Bebout (Microbial Ecologist at NASA Ames) on the exploration of the Titan Lakes.

SETI: Astronomy as a Contact Sport with Jill Tarter

An interview with Jill Tarter, Bernard M. Oliver Chair at the SETI Institute, about the history and future of SETI Research.

Are we ready to build a spaceship to explore nearby stars?

A SETI Institute video hangout with Gregory Benford (science fiction author) and Jill Tarter (Bernard Oliver Chair at the SETI Institute) on the Starship Century Symposium. This symposium coordinated by the new Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination in collaboration with Gregory and James Benford, aims at presenting ideas from science and science fiction.

Life before genetics: autogenesis, information, and the outer solar system

Attend a lecture at the SETI Institute on Tuesday, May 14 at noon, by Dr. Terrence Deacon (UC Berkeley) exploring the origins of life problem by attempting to identify the necessary and sufficient molecular relationships able to embody these two properties.

ATA featured in "Star Trek: Secrets of the Universe"

“Star Trek: Secrets of the Universe,” by filmmaker Anthony Giacchino, explores the challenges of interstellar travel and shows how the SETI Institute is searching for life beyond Earth right now, using the latest technologies.

Ground-Control: An Opera in Space - (The International Space Orchestra) where space scientists become space musicians

Video chat about the International Space Orchestra moderated by Franck Marchis with Nelly Ben Hayoun, Janice Bishop, and John Cumbers.

Kepler Spacecraft Operation May Halt, But the Mission is Not Over

NASA announced today through a press conference that Kepler, its planet-hunting spacecraft, is currently malfunctioning and observations have been halted. Due to failure of one of the reaction wheels, the space telescope is now unable to point accurately toward the region of the sky that it has been observing continuously for 4 years to search for Earth-size planets around other stars.