https://www.seti.org/news/laserseti-lands-in-london/

No exhibit on life beyond Earth would be complete without mentioning #SETI – the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, and the exhibit ends with a cornerstone display, the #LaserSETI telescope. Working with the museum design team, Eliot Gillum, along with Unistellar’s Franck Marchis and Lauren Sgro, helped develop the exhibit space that the LaserSETI instrument would occupy, as well as the descriptions and captions that present the LaserSETI story and science.

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

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July 2024 brought a heat wave to Arizona as well as an unprecedented software outage across the nation. But for Richard Factor, it also brought excitement and the glimmer of hope that accompanies the forefront of science. Factor, a Grammy winner and ham radio expert, was offering his rooftop as the location for the next #LaserSETI observatory.

Read more: https://www.seti.org/searching-life-rooftops

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IFLScience was invited behind the scenes to the Natural History Museum, London's new exhibition, "Space: Could Life Exist Beyond Earth?", where they saw a new instrument developed by the SETI Institute. Humanity has just started using laser light to communicate with spacecraft in deep space; however, advanced civilizations might already be using those lasers, and the #LaserSETI devices aim to spot those and other technosignatures.

Read more: https://www.iflscience.com/theres-the-potential-for-life-to-exist-where-is-life-most-likely-to-be-in-the-solar-system-79304

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Sedona resident Richard Factor has spent a lifetime using ham radio to contact every country on Earth except for North Korea. He’s now hoping to connect with other planets after the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute installed two LaserSETI stations on his roof in July to scan the skies for laser pulses originating outside the solar system.

Learn more: https://www.redrocknews.com/2025/05/23/richard-factor-seeks-lasers-from-space/

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Have you heard about #LaserSETI, a SETI Institute project to search for lasers originating from extraterrestrial intelligence? The idea is that advanced civilizations might use lasers for various purposes, and we could detect those laser signals from Earth.

In a recent video, Dr. Franck Marchis, director of Citizen Science at the SETI Institute, and Dr. Lauren Sgro, the Outreach Manager for LaserSETI and SETI Institute researcher, discuss this exciting project. Watch: https://youtu.be/rZcTnZN98cQ

https://www.seti.org/wow-signal-lingering-mystery-or-natural-phenomenon
In a recent conversation, Dr. Franck Marchis, Director of Unistellar Citizen Science at the SETI Institute and manager of Laser SETI, and Dr. Lauren Sgro, Astronomer and outreach manager for Laser SETI, discussed a paper by Méndez et al. (2024) that proposes a novel explanation for the Wow! signal. The paper suggests that the signal could have been caused by a transient astrophysical phenomenon.

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https://laserseti.net/new-laserseti-observatory-in-sedona-az/
Exciting news for LaserSETI! Two new LaserSETI stations will be installed this weekend in Sedona, Arizona. Although the current installations in California and Hawai’i observe almost 20% of the sky at one time, that will go up dramatically with the new observatory. You can see here how the LaserSETI team has been hard at work getting ready for the install.

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VIDEO: https://youtu.be/85XbEPjKXUc
This month, two teams of astronomers announced the potential discovery of Dyson spheres in our galaxy. But have we truly found indicators of highly advanced civilizations? Join Dr. Franck Marchis and Dr. Lauren Sgro as they delve into these groundbreaking findings and their implications for SETI research.

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LaserSETI Update: https://laserseti.net/pcbs-progress-and-compromise/

Making our next 10 instruments efficiently, as well as ensuring their reliability and ease of maintenance, is a top priority. Some of you might remember a previous iteration of a power board. That board was overpriced and unnecessarily aggressive, so we switched vendors, changed how we did the cabling to avoid joints, and reduced the scope of the board to handle the two remaining wiring challenges: the fans and FLI cameras.

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