The SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array (ATA) recently played host to 16 scientists, engineers, and technologists who gathered for a three-day "hackathon" to develop novel capabilities for the ...

October 16, 2024, Mountain View, CA — Scientists at the SETI Institute and partners from Penn State University used the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) to search for signs of alien technology in the ...

A rare visitor from another star system prompted SETI to hunt for alien technology, but the mysterious object appears to be a ...

A comet from another star system does not arrive every year. That is part of what made 3I/ATLAS so compelling when it appeared in July 2025.

SETI scientists searched the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS for radio signals that could indicate extraterrestrial technology ...

In July 2025, astronomers spotted something remarkable passing through our Solar System, an object that had not come from ...

June 18, 2025, Mountain View, CA -- The SETI Institute and SpaceX have launched a groundbreaking collaboration to help protect sensitive radio astronomy observations at the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) ...

Let the search for extraterrestrial life resume! Back in April, the SETI Allen Telescope Array was shut down due to lack of funding. Now, the institute’s search for extraterrestrial life is set to ...

Although the natural origin of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is generally accepted, the SETI Institute team nevertheless listened to it in an attempt to pick up a signal that would ...

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI(Opens in a new window)) Institute's Allen Telescope Array (ATA(Opens in a new window)), located at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory, California, has ...

People have been looking up at the Milky Way for thousands of years, marveling at its vastness. It was only a matter of time before they began to wonder if life similar to ours could exist on the ...