SETI Institute: Exploring Life’s Origins, Exoplanets, and Technosignatures through Research and Outreach

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SETI Institute is a nonprofit that studies how life began and whether intelligent life exists elsewhere, pursuing research, education, and public outreach across astrobiology, astronomy, data science, and related fields, running projects such as the Allen Telescope Array and COSMIC on the VLA, supporting citizen science with Unistellar, offering internships and postdoc opportunities, sharing news and awards, collaborating with major observatories to explore planetary environments and ETI detection methods while addressing the Fermi paradox and UAPs, inviting donors, and highlighting researchers like Bill Diamond, Dana Backman, and Pamela Harman.

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SETI Institute is a nonprofit pursuing the origins of life, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, and broader cosmic mysteries through research, education, and public outreach, with a science team and affiliates collaborating across astrobiology, astronomy and astrophysics, data science, exoplanets, heliophysics, planetary exploration, and technosignature investigations; it operates projects such as the Allen Telescope Array at Hat Creek and COSMIC on the VLA, runs citizen-science networks with Unistellar, and supports grants in technosignature research, while offering education through the Center for Education, internships and SETI 101 to train new scientists; public-facing programs include news, the Planetary Picture of the Day, exoplanet discussions, and awards like the Drake Award and Tarter Award (with 2026 nominations open); it provides postdoctoral fellowships, lectures, podcasts, and an Artist-in-Residence program, collaborates with major observatories to study planetary environments and life’s potential, shares ETI signal-detection protocols, and discusses topics like the Fermi paradox and UAPs; it invites donors, notes 501(c)(3) status and Charity Navigator rating, sells merchandise to support research, and invites readers to join the newsletter, visit the Hat Creek Observatory, and explore postdoc opportunities, with researchers such as Bill Diamond, Dana Backman, and Pamela Harman highlighted in news and features.