Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is brightening fast! Discovered in January by the Mount Lemmon Survey, it swings closest to Earth on ...

Research Interest: My current research mostly focuses on mass loss from evolved stars and star-and-planet-formation. I also am involved in supernova remnant studies, and I am also interested in B[e] ...

Dr. Christina Richey is the Director for Partnerships and Business Development. Chrissy focuses on partnerships and large-scale funding initiatives by cultivating relationships with government ...

Artist’s interpretation of two massive black holes (MBHs) within a galaxy. A tidal disruption event unfolds around the MBH ...

Dr. Kaltenegger is an award-winning astrophysicist and astrobiologist, the Founding Director of the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell, Professor in Astronomy at Cornell University, and author of Alien ...

Dwarf planet Ceres is depicted in these enhanced-color renderings, which utilize images from NASA’s Dawn mission. New thermal and chemical models that rely on the mission’s data indicate Ceres may ...

Unistellar marks its 10th anniversary with a call to stargazers: observe 10 comets this autumn in partnership with the SETI ...

The talk is part of the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series, now in its 26th year. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a unique ground-based astronomy facility, with the largest digital camera in the ...

Nathalie Cabrol, astrobiologist and Director of the Carl Sagan Center for Research at the SETI Institute, is featured in this Sunday’s NY Times Magazine. The profile focuses on her most recent field ...

Eric Nielsen, a former post-doc at the SETI Institute and now a researcher at Stanford University, led a study of the planet beta Pictoris b. The study combined direct observation of the planet ...

The Sun is restless again! A massive coronal hole has opened up, sending streams of solar wind racing toward Earth. These high-speed particles not only light up our skies with dazzling auroras but can ...