This week, we examine strength from different perspectives. The energetic strength of a solar flare and its effect on Earth. The gravitational strength of dark matter in our universe and its ...

Once back at the airbase, we will spend several days sorting and repacking. Some equipment will stay here in Antarctica for ...

What: Scientists have revived microscopic worms frozen in Siberian permafrost for roughly 46,000 years, revealing how life ...

What: New analyses using early observations from the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission examine how galaxy mergers ...

Follow-up observations with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) and new data from Parkes and the Green ...

Now, a study led by SETI Institute scientist Matija Ćuk proposes an explanation linking the formation of the moons and rings, centering on the possibility that Titan is the product of a moon merger.

Targeting star systems identified by Kepler Space Telescope (especially those in habitable-zone candidate planets). Surveying a region near the Milky Way’s Galactic Center (where stellar density is ...

The SETI Institute’s Astronomy Activation Ambassadors (AAA) program (2016-25) was one of more than 30 education projects funded by NASA’s Science Mission Directorate for Science Activation (SciAct).

Dr. Jill Tarter is Chair Emeritus for SETI Research at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California and serves as a member of the Board of Trustees for that institution. Tarter received her ...

Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon, sending the first images from the lunar surface to Earth. The Luna ...

The universe is full of spectacular sights, from aurora on Earth and Jupiter to the solar flares that cause them, to distant nebulae and stars captured by JWST in space and the VLT on the ground.