From tracking a rare interstellar visitor to revealing hidden star systems, the SETI Institute is at the forefront of space science. Explore four recent stories showcasing our role in groundbreaking ...

The apple of Loeb’s eye is a 6-12 mi.-wide rocky body discovered on July 1 with a telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, that is part of NASA’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey ...

This score means that it’s likely to have been engineered instead of being a naturally occurring force.

The planetary defense system spotted something close to Neptune and researchers think it could be a piece of alien technology ...

Scientists want to send a spacecraft to intercept the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS before it vanishes for good.

Juno would offer ~20-24x better angular resolution due to proximity (distance ratio ~24:1), enabling finer details of ...

Does the scientific community as a whole share the notion that a newly discovered interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is an alien ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb suggests a comet passing through the solar system may be an alien spacecraft, sparking debate among experts.

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has cowritten a research paper speculating whether the comet 3I/ATLAS is in fact "hostile" ...

Scientists are exploring various proposals to repurpose existing spacecraft in order to chase after the interstellar object ...

Potatoes as we know them today are the product of a hybridization that took place 9 million years ago between two plants, one ...

Since 2017, three interstellar objects have been spotted passing through our solar system: 1I/ʻOumuamua, 2I/Borisov… and just ...