Saturn’s largest moon may have had a violent birth. New research led by SETI Institute scientist Matija Ćuk proposes that Titan formed when two earlier Saturnian moons collided and merged hundreds of ...

Satellite views and space telescopes allow scientists to see amazing wonders, such as sand seas in the Namib Desert, "spiderweb" formations on Mars, and even distant nebulae. Sometimes, though, a ...

It provides a dynamic, time-resolved view of planetary transformation, a missing link between young inflated worlds and the compact sub-Neptunes that populate the galaxy.

As NASA’s Artemis program promises to take us back to the moon for the first time in fifty years, we consider what it means that as many as 10% of Americans don’t believe we went there in the first ...

Recent media coverage highlights the wide range of research, education, and scientific perspectives emerging from the SETI ...

What: SETI Institute Artists-in-Residence present Exoplanetary Poetry, an art-science collaboration that trains artificial intelligence on exoplanet atmospheric chemi ...

Pulsars are rapidly rotating and highly magnetized neutron stars that emit periodic radio pulses Scattering is the smearing of radio waves by turbulent ionized gas, which obscures signals at low ...

Two NASA rovers have strengthened the case that ancient Mars may have supported life. While not evidence of life, these discoveries show that ancient Mars had complex organic chemistry, long-lasting ...

This view from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows an outcrop with finely layered rocks within the "Murray Buttes" region on lower Mount Sharp. The buttes and mesas rising ...

February 11, 2026, Mountain View, CA – Recent research suggests that Saturn’s bright rings and its largest moon, Titan, may have both originated in collisions among its moons. While Cassini’s 13-year ...