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Celebrating 40 Years and Beyond
You could say our mission is as big as the universe—because it is. We were founded by a group of pioneering scientists in 1984. It’s hard to believe now, but before they came together to create the SETI Institute, there was little focused research being done on the search for other life in the universe. Over the past four decades, we have developed or been part of the most audacious research projects ever conceived to explore our expanding universe.

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Spotlight on SETI Podcast

For 40 years, the SETI Institute has been a leader in the search for life and intelligence beyond Earth. Recent discoveries, such as exoplanets, have brought us closer than ever to answering the question of whether we are alone in the universe. To honor the Institute’s pioneering past as we look ahead to its future, Big Picture Science presents a new monthly podcast series highlighting the groundbreaking research of the SETI Institute.

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40 years and Beyond
Nov 20, 2024

40 Years and Beyond

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Nov 20, 2024

SETI AIR Newsletter - November 2024

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Nov 20, 2024

Planetary Picture of the Day - Week of November 11, 2024

Janice Bishop with Christopher "Chuck" Bailey, Acting President of the Geological Society of America
Nov 19, 2024

Janice Bishop Honored with the 2024 Arthur L. Day Medal

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Allen Telescope Array

The first radio telescope to be designed from the ground up to be used for SETI searches.

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LaserSETI

LaserSETI is a project, instrument, and set of observatories designed to scan the sky, all the time for extrasolar laser pulses.

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GNU Radio & SETI

GNU technology could speed the design of new receivers, and to allow scientists to quickly change how data are analyzed and displayed.

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Scientists doing SETI experiments are looking for proof – not merely of life elsewhere – but of intelligent beings in other star systems.

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Drake Equation

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