On this week's #SETILive, we learned about the evidence of a planet-planet collision in a distant star system, including drops in the star's brightness and increases in the infrared glow. Watch the full episode: youtube.com/live/eW0dJu8... 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
In a recent #SETILive conversation, SETI Institute planetary scientist Dr. Pascal Lee spoke with SETI Institute Deputy Director of Carl Sagan Center, Simon Steel, to examine what the Artemis mission represents for the future of exploration. 🧪 🔭
Learn more: www.seti.org/news/from-mo...
Last week, NASA announced a shift from a lunar gateway to a lunar base. Dr. Pascal Lee is excited by the news and shared that excitement in our latest #SETILive #podcast. Listen to the full interview: feeds.libsyn.com/462636/rss 🧪 🔭
NASA's plans for the Artemis II mission have changed. In our latest #SETILive, Simon spoke with Dr. Pascal Lee, a planetary scientist at the SETI Institute and the Mars Institute, about the recent decision and its impact on Artemis III. Watch the full interview: youtube.com/live/-iAcGaE... 🧪
In a recent #SETILive episode @allplanets.bsky.social
and Dr. Lauren Sgro talked about the rapid growth of the @unistellar.bsky.social network developed in partnership with @setiinstitute.bsky.social
15,000+ observations in 2025 alone - a ~50% increase YoY.
SETI Live record button logo. Text: The Science of SETI, Beth Johnson, Jason Wright. Background image: The radio dishes at the Very Large Array against a sunset sky. Inset background: A sound wave graphic over an orange and yellow nebula full of stars. Inset photos: Beth Johnson and Jason Wright.
How do scientists search for extraterrestrial intelligence? 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
@astrowright.bsky.social joins #SETILive to discuss his new textbook on the science of SETI — from radio signals to technosignatures.
📡 Join us live! TODAY, March 19, at 2:30 pm PDT
WATCH HERE: youtube.com/live/3n7SUuG...
Our latest #SETILive #podcast looks at the work the @unistellar.bsky.social + SETI Institute Citizen Science Network did in 2025, including taking observations of a disintegrating exoplanet! Listen to the full episode: feeds.libsyn.com/462636/rss 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
Check out our latest #SETILive #podcast! Moiya talks with Dr. John Livingston about mini-Neptunes, why they are interesting, and how they could explain the gap in planetary formation theories. Listen to the full episode: feeds.libsyn.com/462636/rss 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
Text: Citizen Science in Astronomy, Part 8: 2025 Observations, an Exoplanet Candidate, and Rockets! Image: The bright streak of a rocket launch. Unistellar logo. SETI Institute question mark. Graphics silhouettes of a woman with a clipboard and a man leaning on a surface.
Special #SETILive!
TODAY, 27 February, 1 pm PST / 4 pm EST
Join @allplanets.bsky.social and Dr. Lauren Sgro for a conversation on citizen science with the Unistellar network in partnership with the SETI Institute. 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
WATCH LIVE: youtube.com/live/SAI20uc...
Meet Karen Perez, the Welch Postdoctoral Fellow here at the SETI Institute, as she chats with Beth during this week's #SETILive. Karen is the lead author on a paper about a possible pulsar detected near our galactic center. Watch the full interview: buff.ly/FcJ635h 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
SETI Live record button logo. Background: The Green Bank Observatory's telescope under a starry greenish blue night sky. Text: Lost Pulsars Found? Inset image: Graphic representation of a pulsar coming from the Milky Way's galactic center. Inset photos: Beth Johnson and Karen Perez.
Next #SETILive: Today, 2:30 pm PST
A new possible pulsar has been identified near the center of the Milky Way — one of the most extreme environments in our galaxy.
For decades, astronomers expected to find many pulsars orbiting Sagittarius A*. But they’ve been frustratingly hard to detect. 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
Our latest #SETILive #podcast examines the #ArtemisII mission! One of the places the team will observe is Shackleton Crater at the lunar south pole. @ahrensscience.bsky.social discusses the possibilities for understanding the crater's ice. Listen to the full episode: buff.ly/Wbq73HS 🧪 👩🔬 🔭
In this week's #SETILive, Simon chatted with Caitlin Ahrens from NASA Goddard about the upcoming (and now delayed) #ArtemisII mission and the two experiments researching the effects of radiation on astronauts. Watch the full interview: youtube.com/live/fEKIYiK... 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
This #SETILive will start at 1 pm PST / 4:00 pm EST.
SETI Live record button logo. Text: Back to the Moon with Simon Steel and Caitlin Ahrens. Background: Starry night. Inset background: Lunar surface. Inset photos: Simon Steel and Caitlin Ahrens. Bonus: Orion capsule.
Next #SETILive: Back to the Moon 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
TODAY, 2 February, 12:00 pm PST
In today's SETI Live, host Simon Steel is joined by Dr. Caitlin Ahrens, assistant research scientist at NASA Goddard, to explore how Artemis II will prepare the way for future astronaut missions.
WATCH LIVE: buff.ly/q19OiRq
On this week's #SETILive, we looked back at the legacy of the SETI@home project. While no aliens have been found in the data (yet), finding nothing helps the search progress. Project founder Eric Korpela says it was worth it. Watch the full interview: youtube.com/live/eFOm9rD... 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
In our latest #SETILive podcast, a team of scientists working with ESA's Euclid mission's vast dataset talked about how they used machine learning to identify half a million galaxy mergers. Listen to the full episode: feeds.libsyn.com/462636/rss 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
On this week's #SETILive, we learned that data from ESA's Euclid Mission show that merging galaxies make the possibility of an Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) two to six times more likely! Watch the full interview with @goastromo.bsky.social and a team of scientists from SRON: buff.ly/h7ZiqEs 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
Next #SETILive: When Galaxies Collide
TODAY, 15 January, 11 am PST / 2 pm EST
Host @goastromo.bsky.social will explore two new Euclid studies that combine vast sky surveys, machine learning, and multi-wavelength observations to uncover when and why active galactic nuclei (AGN) ignite. 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
One of the most exciting stories in 2026 will be the first light science observations of @vrubinobs.bsky.social, which will mark the beginning of its 10-year LSST program. Franck later predicts in this #SETILive, the telescope will find object 4I in 2026! Listen: feeds.libsyn.com/462636/rss 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
This week's #SETILive looked at what is coming up in space science and exploration this year. First up is the Artemis II mission, which will take 10 days, 4 astronauts, and a trip around the Moon. Watch the full discussion: youtube.com/live/3AK28FH... 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
SkyMapper CEO @allplanets.bsky.social and @setiinstitute.bsky.social comms specialist Beth Johnson return for another #SETILive episode to explore what's coming for science in 2026.
The questions are getting bigger and so is our view of the universe.
SETI Live record button logo. Starry background. Text: What to Expect 2026. Inset: (back) Lunar surface. (left) Beth Johnson. (right) Franck Marchis.
Next #SETILive: TODAY, 8 January, 2:30 PST
2026 brings a dense lineup of space science milestones: crewed lunar missions, new observatories, planetary exploration, and data releases that will shape the next decade.
Join @planetarypan.bsky.social and @allplanets.bsky.social to connect the dots! 🧪 🔭
In a recent #SETILive discussion, @planetarypan.bsky.social and @planetcynthia.bsky.social discussed how an instrument built for a very different target was rapidly repurposed to study one of the rarest objects ever detected in the solar system. 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
Learn more: www.seti.org/news/3iatlas...
Intelligent life may be far more uncommon than once assumed. In a recent #SETILive discussion, Deputy Director of the Carl Sagan Center Dr. Simon Steel spoke with Dr. Manuel Scherf and Dr. Helmut Lammer of the Austrian Academy of Sciences to examine new models of planetary habitability. 🧪
In our most recent #SETILive #podcast, @allplanets.bsky.social introduced his latest project, @skymapper.bsky.social, a decentralized network of telescopes. Here, he explains what he hopes the company will become in ten years. Listen to the full interview: feeds.libsyn.com/462636/rss 🧪 🔭
On our latest #SETILive #podcast, Dr Carly Howett from the University of Oxford explains the kinds of Earth analogues that may exist for the subsurface ocean environment of Enceladus. Hydrothermal vents, anyone? Listen to the full episode: feeds.libsyn.com/462636/rss 🧪 🔭 👩🔬
#ICYMI: On #SETILive, @kosmichh.bsky.social chatted with Manuel Scherf and Helmut Lammer about what makes Earth so special that intelligent life evolved and how those circumstances may lower the chances of similar life on other worlds. Watch the full interview: youtube.com/live/qy8spTZ... 🧪 🔭
