ICYMI: On this week's #SETILive, Simon Steel chatted with Sanne Bloot about a mysterious radio pulse that was detected only two times out of every five expected. Watch the full video: https://youtube.com/live/XMvQOO4nUjA

Next #SETILive: LaserSETI Live Puerto Rico Edition
TODAY, 30 August, 11 am PDT

Join us for a special livestream featuring Dr. Abel Méndez from the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo, hosted by SETI Institute researcher Dr. Lauren Sgro. They will discuss the latest on LaserSETI, the all-sky project searching for optical technosignatures, including exciting updates from the new installation in Puerto Rico.

WATCH LIVE: https://youtube.com/live/NgIV41taoCU

Next #SETILive: Pulsing White Dwarf!
Decoding a Strange Radio Rhythm

TODAY, 28 August, 11:00 am PDT / 2:00 pm EDT

Join us for a 30-minute livestream with Simon Steel, Deputy Director of the Carl Sagan Center for Research at the SETI Institute, and Dr. Sanne Bloot, lead author of a recent study on one of the universe’s most puzzling new discoveries: a white dwarf that emits highly polarized radio pulses in a strange, patterned rhythm.

WATCH LIVE: https://youtube.com/live/XMvQOO4nUjA

Next #SETILive: Can We Recognize Alien Life?
TODAY, 21 August, 1:30 pm PT

Join communications specialist Beth Johnson for a conversation with Dr. Anastasia Yanchilina, Frank Drake Postdoctoral Fellow at the SETI Institute, as we explore how life might emerge and/or be mistaken for in environments beyond Earth. Dr. Yanchilla studies abiotic mineral structures that resemble biological life but form entirely through non-living processes.

WATCH LIVE: https://youtube.com/live/nwSbXPhA7ps

Our recent #SETILive wasn't the first time we talked about an exoplanet in the habitable zone around Alpha Centauri. Four years ago, Franck chatted with Dr. Kevin Wagner about his newly published paper in Nature Communications.

Watch more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wkpFhjdzWo

Next #SETILive: Closest Exoplanet Yet?
TODAY, 8 August, 3:15 pm PDT

Join astronomers Franck Marchis (SETI Institute) and Julien Girard (Space Telescope Science Institute) for a 30-minute live discussion unpacking NASA’s exciting new findings from JWST. Just announced, JWST has revealed strong evidence of a Saturn-mass gas giant orbiting Alpha Centauri A—the Sun’s nearest solar twin—located just 4 light-years away.

WATCH LIVE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2x-Dcpt_04&ab_channel=SETIInstitute

Next #SETILive: Orbital Oddity and Neptune
TODAY, 7 August, 2:30 pm PDT

Join us for a live conversation with astronomer Dr. Rosemary E. Pike, lead author of a new study that reveals the discovery of a rare and distant object orbiting in resonance with Neptune. Hosted by Beth Johnson, this stream will explore the science behind this unusual trans-Neptunian object, what it tells us about the early solar system, and why its orbital alignment is so surprising.

WATCH LIVE: https://youtube.com/live/nYtiMYQ-M-Y

Next #SETILive: A Vaporizing Planet
TODAY, Jul 17, 2025 | 3:30 PM PDT / 6:30 PM EDT

Join communications specialist Beth Johnson for a live interview with astrophysicist Marc Hon (MIT), lead author of a new study revealing one of the most extreme exoplanets ever discovered — a small, rocky world that's literally disintegrating as it orbits its star.

WATCH LIVE: https://www.youtube.com/live/kcMRyGUYR_g?si=NAl-ASSBYvkBlXOZ

In our latest #SETILive #podcast, artist Jennifer Willet talks about the experience of creating an artwork that represented the seemingly opposing viewpoints of biogenesis from our two 2025 Drake Award winners. Listen to the full podcast: https://www.seti.org/seti-live/

Next #SETILive: Comet 3I/ATLAS
TODAY, Jul 11 | 1:00 PM PDT

Join us for a live discussion on #Comet3IATLAS, the third known interstellar object to visit our cosmic neighborhood. Host Simon Steel, Deputy Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute, will be joined by a panel of experts to explore what makes this comet unique, how scientists are studying it, and what its presence means for our understanding of planetary systems beyond our own. #space

WATCH LIVE: https://youtube.com/live/hFsPTMVHTzY

Next #SETILive: How Ceres Froze Over
TODAY, Jul 7, 2025 | 2:30 PM PDT / 5:30 PM EDT

Join planetary scientists Beth Johnson and Dr. Ian Pamerleau, lead author of a groundbreaking new Nature Astronomy study, for a deep dive into the icy mysteries of #Ceres—the largest object in the asteroid belt and the only dwarf planet to be orbited by a spacecraft.

WATCH LIVE: https://youtube.com/live/NR92_Cve8MY

Our latest #SETILive #podcast features the NSF-DOE Vera #RubinObservatory! We chatted with Beth Willman, CEO of the LSST Discovery Alliance, about the observatory's #Skyviewer app. Have you tried it out yet?

https://youtube.com/shorts/Q22WTNecxig?feature=share

Next #SETILive: Dreams of Biogenesis
TODAY, 3 July, 2:30 pm PDT / 5:30 pm EDT

Artist and INCUBATOR Art Lab Director Jennifer Willet created an artwork that visualizes the theories of SETI Institute Drake Award recipients Dr. David Deamer and Dr. John Baross. Join SETI AIR Director Bettina Forget and Jennifer Willet for a conversation about creative research that combines fine arts practices with applied biotechnologies.

WATCH LIVE: https://youtube.com/live/z0Qb62gV7Qs

Next #SETILive: Rubin Observatory First Look
TODAY, 1 July, 2:30 pm PDT

Last week, the NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory released its First Look images. Join SETI Institute communications specialist Beth Johnson and CEO of the LSST Discovery Alliance Beth Willman in a special SETI Live event, talking about these First Look images, the future of the LSST mission, and what all the new data could mean for astrobiology and planetary defense.

WATCH LIVE: https://youtube.com/live/EfHZ2oai9rA

Next #SETILive: LaserSETI Update
Today, June 26, 2:30 pm PDT

A major new exhibition at the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, Space: Could Life Exist Beyond Earth?, runs from May 17, 2025, to January 4, 2026, and will feature a complete LaserSETI instrument on display. Join Simon Steel and planetary astronomer Franck Marchis to talk about the London exhibition, the new observatories, and what this all means in the search for life beyond Earth.

Watch live: https://youtube.com/live/8G-f_BPKDoI

No new #SETILive #podcast this week, so let's go back to April 1 and an interesting exoplanet called HD 20794 d with an eccentric orbit. The temperature differences make it a great place to study a planet's potential habitability! Listen to the whole show: https://sites.libsyn.com/462636/super-earth-laboratory-using-hd-20794-d-to-understand-habitability

Our upcoming #SETILive interviews look at a new #LaserSETI exhibit and observatory location, the stunning artwork created in honor of this year's #DrakeAward recipients, and new science that reveals how #Ceres froze. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for notifications: https://www.youtube.com/SETIInstitute

Have you listened to our most recent #SETILive #podcast and picked your favorite future Earth scenario? We kind of like number 5, transhumanism! Listen to the whole show: https://www.seti.org/seti-live/?page=1

And check out the complete list: https://futures.bmsis.org/

In a recent #SETILive episode hosted by Beth Johnson, Dr. Ben Tutolo, an associate professor at the University of Calgary and a participating scientist on NASA's Curiosity Rover team, unveiled how an unassuming iron carbonate - siderite - is the key to unlocking #Mars's atmospheric secrets.

Learn more: https://www.seti.org/marss-ancient-carbon-cycle-how-rocks-mars-tell-story-vanishing-climate

#ICYMI: On this week's #SETILive, Franck chatted with Dr. Jacob Haqq-Misra about possible technosphere futures for Earth and how they would look to aliens. Watch the full interview: https://youtube.com/live/aOs7WU8Gd4c