The Drake Equation helps scientists estimate the odds of finding intelligent alien civilizations. It’s an age-old question: Do aliens exist? And what are the odds we’ll make contact? A famous ...

Some of our SETI Institute team members at Pixar Animation Studios. A new documentary film, recently released, celebrates first contact with aliens and highlights the importance of SETI research in ...

Throughout the years, people have told actor Mark Rolston how much 1986’s “Aliens” have meant to them. “They’ll say, ‘You’re the reason I enlisted in the Marines.’ I automatically reply, ‘Oh no, I can ...

A new paper calculates that technological civilisations survive for just 5,000 years, offering a chilling answer to the ...