SETI Institute
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 ...
How Many Habitable Planets are Out There? - SETI Institute
October 29, 2020, Mountain View, CA – Thanks to new research using data from the Kepler space telescope, it’s estimated that there could be as many as 300 million potentially habitable planets in our galaxy. Some could even be pretty close, with several likely within 30 light-years of our Sun. The findings will be published in The Astronomical Journal, and research was a collaboration of ...
SETI
Jun 25, 2024 · SETI is an acronym for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. It is an effort to detect evidence of technological civilizations that may exist elsewhere in the universe, particularly in our Galaxy. There are potentially billions of locations outside our Solar System that may host life. With our current technology, we have some ability …
Allen Telescope Array Overview
The Allen Telescope Array was originally designed to cover frequencies between 500 and 10,000 MHz, which is more than five times the range searched in Project Phoenix. Thanks to a generous donation from Franklin Antonio (co-founder and Chief Scientist at Qualcomm) the ATA receivers are now being replaced with new systems that will cover 1,000 ...
Drake Equation - SETI Institute
Nov 19, 2022 · Understanding the Drake Equation This simple formulation is generally agreed to be the “second most-famous equation in science (after E= mc 2),” and you can find it in nearly every astronomy textbook.. The Drake Equation was cooked up by astronomer Frank Drake in 1961 to serve as the agenda for the first meeting on the topic of SETI. In 1960, Drake had conducted a pioneering search for ...
Carl Sagan Center for Research - SETI Institute
Frank Drake Postdoctoral Fellowship. The SETI Institute is pleased to announce the call for applications to the 2025 Frank Drake Postdoctoral Fellowship focusing on “Innovation in the Search for Life in the Universe," covering a wide range of fields including: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrobiology, Climate and Biogeosciences, Exoplanets, Planetary Exploration, and SETI Intelligence and ...
News - SETI Institute
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SETI Research - SETI Institute
SETI SETI is a generic acronym that stands for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Scientists doing SETI experiments are looking for proof – not merely of life elsewhere – but of intelligent beings in other star systems.
About - SETI Institute
The SETI Institute. is a non-profit research organization, located in the Silicon Valley close to the NASA Ames Research Center. Our mission is to lead humanity's quest to understand the origins and prevalence of life and intelligence in the universe and share that knowledge with the world. The Institute began small, with just one project ...
SETI Institute Researchers Engage in World’s First Real-Time AI …
Oct 8, 2024 · It took time — in part due to the coronavirus pandemic — but earlier this year, Thompson showed Siemion’s team a new product, NVIDIA Holoscan, a sensor processing platform for processing real time data from scientific instruments. Siemion’s team decided to build a trial application with Holoscan on the NVIDIA IGX edge computing platform that, if successful, could radically change the ...