SETI Live

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SETI Live is a weekly production of the SETI Institute and is recorded live on stream with viewers on YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, X (formerly known as Twitter), and Twitch. Guests include astronomers, planetary scientists, cosmologists, and more, working on current scientific research. Founded in 1984, the SETI Institute is a non-profit, multi-disciplinary research and education organization whose mission is to lead humanity's quest to understand the origins and prevalence of life and intelligence in the Universe and to share that knowledge with the world.

Episode Date
Galactic Islands of Tranquility: How "Little Red Dots" May Brew Life's Building Blocks
May 06, 2026
The 45 Best Places to Look for Alien Life
Apr 28, 2026
SkyMapper is Live! Explore the Sky in Real Time
Apr 14, 2026
Planet Crash: Cosmic Collision Caught in Action
Apr 07, 2026
From Moon to Mars: What Artemis II Means for the Future
Mar 31, 2026
The Science of SETI: Inside the First Modern Textbook
Mar 27, 2026
The Titan Impact: Saturn's Moon System May Have Had a Catastrophic Past
Mar 24, 2026
Rethinking Radio: A New Way to Hear the Universe?
Mar 20, 2026
Unistellar + Citizen Science (Part 8): 2025 Observations, An Exoplanet Candidate, and Rockets!
Mar 17, 2026
Missing Link Found: A Breakthrough in Exoplanet Science
Mar 03, 2026
Exoplanetary Poetry: AI, Chemistry, and Alien Communication
Feb 24, 2026
Lost Pulsars Found? Breakthrough Listen's Deep Survey of the Galactic Core
Feb 17, 2026
Back to the Moon: How Artemis II Sets the Stage for the Next Era of Missions
Feb 10, 2026
Life After Ice: 46,000-Year-Old Worms Wake Up
Feb 03, 2026
SETI@home Update: 21 Years of Citizen Science—and 100 Signals to Investigate
Jan 27, 2026
When Galaxies Collide: Euclid Reveals What Triggers Active Black Holes
Jan 20, 2026
What to Expect in Space Science 2026
Jan 13, 2026
3I/ATLAS: Caught in UV | What Europa Clipper Saw When No One Else Could
Dec 30, 2025
Earth 2.0? Maybe Not. Intelligent Life Might Be Far Rarer Than We Think
Dec 23, 2025
SkyMapper: Map All the Sky, All the Time
Dec 19, 2025
Baby Moons in the Making? The Discovery of a Moon-Forming Disk
Dec 16, 2025
The Moon that Could Support Life: What Cassini Discovered Beneath the Ice of Enceladus
Dec 12, 2025
Where Water Boils the Sky: Steam Worlds and the Search for Life
Dec 09, 2025
TRAPPIST‑1 e Revealed: Peering Inside an Exoplanet's Atmosphere
Dec 05, 2025
Welcome Moiya! A New Host Joins SETI Live
Dec 02, 2025
Comet 3I/ATLAS Perihelion Update
Nov 28, 2025
This Microbe Breathes Two Ways! The Bacteria That Challenge Biochemistry
Nov 25, 2025
The Hidden Ocean of Ariel: Tidal Forces and the Case for a Watery Past
Nov 21, 2025
Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean: An Environmental History of Our Place in the Solar System
Nov 18, 2025
Do Aliens Speak Physics? And Other Questions about Science and the Nature of Reality
Nov 14, 2025
Birth of Planets: JWST Spots Hot Mineral Condensation in a Proto-Stellar System
Nov 11, 2025
Space Weather Alert! Sunspots, Coronal Holes, and Space Storms
Nov 07, 2025
Hidden Habitability: What Dawn Discovered Beneath Ceres' Icy Crust
Nov 04, 2025
Lunar Impact? Asteroid 2024 YR4 and the Risk to the Moon
Oct 31, 2025
When We Find Life: Science, Society, and Survival
Oct 28, 2025
Worlds of Fire: What Molten Exoplanets Teach Us About Planet Formation
Oct 14, 2025
Life in Titan's Ocean? The Microscopic Possibility of Biomass on Saturn's Moon
Oct 07, 2025
LaserSETI Live Puerto Rico Edition: A New Observatory & Revisiting the Wow! Signal
Oct 03, 2025
Pulsing White Dwarf! Decoding a Strange Radio Rhythm
Sep 30, 2025
Can We Recognize Alien Life? Ocean Worlds and the Search for Life
Sep 26, 2025
Citizen Science in Astronomy (Part 7): Comet 3I/ATLAS and a Disintegrating Exoplanet
Sep 23, 2025
Closest Exoplanet Yet? JWST Reveals Neighboring Planet Candidate
Sep 19, 2025
Orbital Oddity and Neptune: Resonant Object Hints at Planetary Migration
Sep 16, 2025
A Vaporizing Planet: Why BD+05 4868 b is Turning to Dust
Sep 12, 2025
Comet 3I/ATLAS: A Visitor from Beyond the Solar System
Sep 09, 2025
How Ceres Froze Over: Modeling the Ice-Rich Crust of an Evolving Dwarf Planet
Jul 22, 2025
Dreams of Biogenesis: A Conversation with Artist Jennifer Willet
Jul 15, 2025
NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory First Look: Stunning Images and Asteroids Aplenty
Jul 08, 2025
LaserSETI Update: On Exhibit in London and a New Station in Puerto Rico
Jul 01, 2025
Could Aliens See Us? What Earth's Technosphere Reveals
Jun 17, 2025
Mars' Ancient Carbon Cycle: How Rocks on Mars Tell the Story of a Vanishing Climate
Jun 10, 2025
Titan's Missing Deltas? What Cassini Saw — and What It Didn't
Jun 03, 2025
A Cookbook of Life: How Chemistry Might Explain Life on Other Planets
May 27, 2025
Red Planet, Blue Past: How Rain Shaped the Martian Landscape
May 20, 2025
Tiny Asteroids, Big Threats: JWST Reveals a Hidden World of Mini Asteroids
May 13, 2025
Is Intelligent Life Easy? Human-Like Life Probably Evolves "Right on Time"
May 06, 2025
Unistellar + Citizen Science Q&A (Part 6): Comet SWAN, Satellites, Asteroid Leona
Apr 29, 2025
Chasing Martian Microbes: A New Technique for Finding Microbial Fossils in Minerals
Apr 22, 2025
Why is Mars Red? New Research Suggests Ferrihydrite is the Key
Apr 15, 2025
The Climate Chronicles with Professor Dagomar Degroot
Apr 08, 2025
Super-Earth Laboratory: Using HD 20794 d to Understand Habitability
Apr 01, 2025
Amino Acids on Bennu! Building Blocks for Life Detected in Asteroid Bennu Samples
Mar 25, 2025
A PUNCH for the Sun: NASA's Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere
Mar 18, 2025
Space is the Case: A Conversation with SETI Artist in Residence Martin Wilner
Mar 11, 2025
Looking for Lunar Anomalies Using Automated Methods
Mar 04, 2025
Earth Detecting Earth: How Far Away Can We Detect Earth's Technosignatures?
Feb 26, 2025
Unistellar + SETI: Citizen Science Q&A (Part 5)
Feb 18, 2025
Planets Form Where?? ALMA Observations Show Planet Formation in Harsh Environments
Feb 12, 2025
What to Expect in 2025 in Space Science
Feb 04, 2025
Mixed Signals: Alien Communication Across the Iron Curtain
Dec 31, 2024
Uranus Breaks (Solar) Wind: Re-Analyzing Data from the Voyager 2 Mission
Dec 17, 2024
Asteroid Deflection via Nuclear Blasts and Sandia National Labs
Dec 10, 2024
Unistellar + SETI: Citizen Science Q&A (Part 4)
Dec 03, 2024
SETI Institute 40th Anniversary Panel: Looking Back to Look Ahead
Nov 26, 2024
How to Kill an Asteroid with Dr. Robin George Andrews
Nov 19, 2024
The Hera Mission: Following Up on the DART Impact of Dimorphos
Nov 12, 2024
Into the Unknown with Kelsey Johnson, Ph.D.
Nov 05, 2024
Looking for Life in All the Wrong Places: The Atacama, NASA Viking Experiments, and Salts
Oct 29, 2024
The Non Random Arts Collective: Exploring Habitability, Space Exploration, and Gene Editing
Oct 22, 2024
Naked Eye Comets? October May Yield a Bounty
Oct 08, 2024
New Exoplanets Just Dropped! And Citizen Scientists Helped Find Them
Oct 01, 2024
Europa Clipper is Go! Mission Passes Milestone Toward October Launch
Sep 24, 2024
Finally! An Intermediate-Mass Black Hole
Sep 17, 2024
Hot, Young Supernova Remnant! JWST Observations of Cas A Challenge Scientists
Sep 10, 2024
Pollution on Exoplanets? Using Greenhouse Gases as Signs of Civilization
Sep 03, 2024
55 Cancri e: A Rocky World with a Thick Atmosphere with Renyu Hu, JPL
Aug 27, 2024
The Secret Life of the Universe with Nathalie Cabrol
Aug 20, 2024
The Future of AI & Space Science with CEO Bill Diamond
Aug 13, 2024
Black Hole Awakens ft. Dr. Paula Sánchez-Sáez
Aug 06, 2024
The Shores of Titan: Crashing Waves and Coastal Erosion ft. Dr. Rose Palermo, USGS
Jul 23, 2024
Gliese 12 b: A Promising Earth-to-Venus-Sized Exoplanet
Jul 16, 2024
More Active Volcanoes on Venus!: A New Archival Study Finds Evidence of Further Eruptions
Jul 03, 2024
Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos ft. Lisa Kaltenegger
Jun 25, 2024
Asteroid Institute Identifies 27,500 New Asteroids!
Jun 18, 2024
James Webb Telescope Unveils Wild Weather on WASP-43 b
Jun 11, 2024
Exploring Hydrothermal Vents: Earth's Deep Ocean as a Model for Alien Worlds
Jun 04, 2024
Celebrating Andrew Siemion, Drake Award Recipient 2024 for SETI Leadership and Contributions
May 28, 2024
T Coronae Borealis: The Nova of a Lifetime (ft. Unistellar)
May 21, 2024
Exploring a Hot, Young World: The Closest and Youngest Earth-sized Planet Discovered
May 14, 2024
Into the "Deep Sky": NASA's Webb Telescope on IMAX® with director Nathaniel Kahn
May 07, 2024
Giant Volcano Discovered on Mars ft. Pascal Lee
Apr 30, 2024
Earth as an Exoplanet: Using Remote Sensing Data to Find Habitable Worlds
Apr 23, 2024
Unveiling the Secrets of Enceladus
Apr 16, 2024
Electric Mayhem: TRAPPIST-1e's Atmospheric Erosion
Apr 09, 2024
Dante Lauretta, The Asteroid Hunter
Apr 02, 2024
SETI Artist In Residence Program: Xin Liu's Inward Expeditions
Mar 26, 2024
On the Trail of Fireballs: Tracking Meteors and Finding Meteorites
Mar 19, 2024
A Celestial Collaboration: Unistellar Citizen Scientists Track Comets
Mar 12, 2024
Under Alien Skies ft. Phil Plait, Ph.D.
Mar 05, 2024
From Earth to Mars: The Incredible Story of the Ingenuity Helicopter
Feb 27, 2024
The Mysterious Ocean of Saturn's Moon, Mimas
Feb 20, 2024
The COSMIC Project at the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array
Feb 13, 2024
Ganymede's Alien Landscape: Salt, Organics, and Extraterrestrial Clues
Feb 06, 2024
"A City on Mars" with Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
Jan 30, 2024
Unveiling the Future of Amateur Astronomy: Unistellar's ODYSSEY Telescope
Jan 17, 2024
What to Expect in 2024 in Space
Jan 09, 2024
Tracking Santa - Around the World in a Night
Jan 08, 2024
Drifting Signals: New Boundaries for Radio Technosignatures
Jan 07, 2024
"The Big One": The Most Powerful Marsquake Ever Detected
Jan 06, 2024
Defending the Planet - DART and Future Missions
Dec 19, 2023
Women With Impact, a conversation with SETI AIR Director Bettina Forget
Dec 12, 2023
Evidence of (16) Psyche's Metallic Nature Found with SOFIA
Dec 05, 2023
An Abundance of Space Rocks - The OSIRIS-REx Sample Revealed
Nov 28, 2023
Volcanism on Exoplanets - New Insights from JWST and Beyond
Nov 21, 2023
Hot Spot on the Moon - Granite Batholith Found Below Surface
Nov 14, 2023
Atmospheric Results from JWST: Carbon Dioxide, Methane, and More?
Nov 07, 2023
Out There: The Science Behind Sci-Fi Film and TV with Ariel Waldman
Oct 31, 2023
The Library of the Great Silence: A conversation with Jonathon Keats
Oct 24, 2023
Cosmic Enigma: The Slow-Spinning Star Mystery
Oct 03, 2023
Xenopocene: The First 10,000 Days After First Contact, a conversation with Daedelus
Sep 26, 2023
Moon and Mars on Earth: Preparing for Space Exploration in the Arctic
Sep 19, 2023
Frontier Development Lab
Sep 12, 2023
Citizen Science and SN 2023ixf
Sep 05, 2023
Introducing FIRST: A Game-Changer in Telescope Technology!
Aug 29, 2023
Searching for ET at the Heart of the Milky Way
Aug 22, 2023
Xenology, Alienness, and Trans Futures: A conversation with Adriana Knouf
Aug 15, 2023
Pulsars Reveal Cosmic Hum
Aug 08, 2023
Building Block for Life Found: Phosphates Discovered in Enceladus' Plumes
Aug 01, 2023
Planetary Protection, Mars and the Search for Life
Jul 25, 2023
Water in a Rare Main-Belt Comet? JWST Unveils Solar System Mystery
Jul 18, 2023
InVADER Mission Conducts Deep-Sea Test
Jul 12, 2023
Total Eclipse Down Under
Jul 03, 2023
Dragonfly: Mission to Titan
Jun 27, 2023
Volcanoes on Venus: A New Look at Old Data
Jun 20, 2023
Exotopia: An AI-generated Adventure to Study Alien Life
Jun 13, 2023
AI + ET: Will Machine Learning Help Find Extraterrestrial Life?
Jun 06, 2023
Astronomers for Planet Earth: There is no Planet B
May 30, 2023
NASA's DART Mission Successfully Alters Trajectory of Dimorphos Moon
May 23, 2023
MISSION JUNO: Catching Up with a Gas Giant
May 16, 2023
The Trouble with M Dwarf Stars and the Search for Habitable Worlds
May 09, 2023
C/2022 E3 (ZTF) - A Rare Comet Visits Earth
May 02, 2023
The Earthling Project - Songs for Outer Space
Apr 25, 2023
Watery Exoplanets
Apr 18, 2023
What's Coming in 2023
Feb 27, 2023