The SETI Institute turns 40 this month! What began as a two-person project at the NASA Ames Research Center has now grown into a vibrant, independent research institute with over 100 scientists, all ...
The question “are we alone in the universe?” has fascinated people for centuries. In 1959 two Cornell University physicists described how we might answer that question through interstellar ...
You interact with about two-thirds of the elements of the periodic table every day. Some, like carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen, make up our bodies and the air we breathe. Yet there is also a class of ...