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.

Big Picture Science Radio Show - Skeptic Check: Hostile Climate

It’s a record we didn’t want to break. Carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere is at an all-time high. Meanwhile an op-ed in a leading newspaper says not to worry, CO2 is good for you.

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.

Field Tests in Mojave Desert Pave Way for Human Exploration of Small Bodies

Mountain View, California - A team of researchers from the SETI Institute, the Mars Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, and the space robotics company Honeybee Robotics, has successfully completed a first series of field tests aimed at investigating how humans will explore and work on Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs) and eventually the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos.

Probing Supermassive Black Hole Growth with Next Generation Telescopes

Dr. Croft's talk will focus on the capabilities of the next generation of radio telescopes, including the Square Kilometer Array and the Allen Telescope Array. These instruments are due to transform our understanding of the growth of the enormous black holes that lurk at the heart of almost all galaxies.

Has Kepler Found Ideal SETI-target Planets?

NASA's Kepler mission has discovered a new planetary system that is home to five small planets around a slightly smaller star than our Sun.