SETI Post-Detection Hub

🎨 Is intelligence tied to creativity?

Some argue that the ability to generate new ideas, imagine alternatives, or innovate solutions is a core feature of intelligence. Others see creativity as valuable, but not required for an entity to be considered intelligent.

💭 What's your take?

#Intelligence

#ICYMI: Are we close to discovering life beyond Earth? Dr. Martin Dominik isn't certain, but he thinks we should be prepared to handle the consequences of finding that life. He spoke with Dr. Franck Marchis in this week's #SETILive. Watch the full interview: youtube.com/live/cULB0k2... 🧪 🔭

🌍 How do you think the world would react if there was a confirmed discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence?

Would it bring unity or fear? Would the impact last or slowly fade away? Would it change anything if the discovery was within our own Solar System?

👇 Reply and let us know your thoughts!

YouTube video by SETI Institute When We Find Life: Science, Society, and Survival

What happens after we discover life beyond Earth?

Today Martin Dominik is speaking with the SETI Institute’s Franck Marchis about our paper on post-detection futures.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cULB...
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#SETI #PostDetection #astronomy #astrobiology #technosignatures #space #science

Today's discovery of signs of past life on Mars is a legacy of President Obama's NASA direction from 2011-2015 to get the Mars program back on track.

Earlier this year, President Trump cut NASA's 2026 science budget by 47%.

Mystery Martian minerals hint at the planet’s complex geochemical past The Perseverance rover on Mars has observed unusual minerals associated with organic matter — raising questions about the geochemistry of ancient Mars.

The Perseverance rover on Mars has observed unusual minerals associated with organic matter — raising questions about the geochemistry of ancient Mars.

go.nature.com/469V1nr

Perseverance Sample Shows Evidence of Ancient Martian Microbial Metabolisms - Eos A sample collected in July 2024 by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover may be “the closest we've actually come to discovering ancient life on Mars,” according to Nicky Fox, the science head of NASA.

A Mars sample collected in 2024 may be “the closest we’ve actually come to discovering ancient life on Mars,” according to NASA officials 🧪

eos.org/research-and...

We (The Hub) have made it as part of an exhibit at the Natural History Museum "Could Life Exist Beyond Earth" - exhibition display just seen by one of my colleagues at the SETI Post-Detection Hub . The word is spreading. 👽

SETI Post-Detection Futures: Directions for Technosignature Research and Readiness - Astrobiology This white paper highlights the work that is needed to anticipate the challenges and societal impacts of a possible technosignature detection.

SETI Post-Detection Futures: Directions for Technosignature Research and Readiness
astrobiology.com/2025/07/seti... #astrobiology #SETI #astronomy

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Scientists are planning for life after finding aliens Just imagine it, the news stories are all over your phone when you wake! The day will surely come that we will discover that we are not alone in the universe! What happens the day after though? A new ...

This is so cool! 🤓 phys.org/news/2025-07...

#scifi

Edge-on spiral galaxy angled pointing lower left to upper right. It's glowing with a bright core that's cut with the dark veins of dust clouds. The background is peppered with a myriad of colorful stars and distant galaxies in black space.

A smooth, cigar-shaped galaxy angled pointing lower left to upper right glowing with a bright core. Two bright stars beam just to the upper left and lower right of the galaxy. The background is peppered with a myriad of colorful stars and distant galaxies in black space.

A face-on spiral with a bright core and sweeping arms knotted with blue clusters of star-forming regions. The background is peppered with a myriad of colorful stars and distant galaxies in black space.

A face-on spiral with a bright core and a single thin arm wrapping all the way around, almost looking like a ring. Two bright blue stars beam above and to the lower left of the galaxy, with a third yellow star to the lower right. The background is peppered with a myriad of colorful stars and distant galaxies in black space.

Happy birthday, Vera Rubin! 🥳✨

What better way to celebrate than with NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's view of galaxies SHE studied?

NGC 4343, 4526, 4535, and 4378 are just a few gems from our Cosmic Treasure Chest. Explore them and more at skyviewer.app 🔭🧪

Good to cohere around the idea that readiness for discovery isn’t simply about practical coordination, but includes studying social and planetary dynamics, speculative approaches, and broadening how we understand communication, intelligence, and response in a more-than-human cosmos.

#PostDiscovery

SETI Post-Detection Futures: Directions for Technosignature Research and Readiness This white paper highlights the work that is needed to anticipate the challenges and societal impacts of a possible technosignature detection. We recommend practical steps to strengthen NASA's astrobi...

arXiv link here: arxiv.org/abs/2507.11587

Collectively imagining, across disciplines, how astrobiology might evolve over the next decade was a rich process.

Themes that came through included cultural perspectives, speculative tools, AI & tech transformations, & learning from animal communication.

Scientists are Planning for Life After Finding Aliens Just imagine it, the news stories are all over your phone when you wake! The day will surely come that we will discover that we are not alone in the Universe! What happens the day after though? A new ...

The SETI Post-Detection Hub’s NASA DARES White Paper is featured on @universetoday.com. Written by 14 members on behalf of the Hub, it outlines 6 key areas for growing readiness for the discovery of life beyond Earth.

www.universetoday.com/articles/sci...
#SETI #Readiness #Astrobiology #NASADARES

One of the best workshops I’ve ever attended!

Many thanks @daliahbibas.bsky.social for your contribution to the workshop. It was a real pleasure to have you with us.

Just back from an incredibly interesting and enjoyable weekend at St Andrews (Scotland), where we held our first Workshop for the SETI Post Detection Hub, at the University. Not one PowerPoint slide in evidence and all the better for it - we actually interacted and debated topics. More to come ..

The 2025 UK Space Conference is coming to Manchester on 16 - 17 July!🚀

This exciting event is a unique opportunity to take part in innovative panel sessions and connect with industry leaders. 🤝

Book your place 👉 spaceconference.co.uk/2025/home

Hear from ESA Reserve Astronaut, John McFall. 👇

Priority registration for the Summer Science Exhibition is now open! Book your free timeslot now and join us from 1-6 July for this mindblowing showcase of cutting-edge science from spider senses to quantum technologies.

Booking recommended but not required.

royalsociety.org/science-even...

NASA-DARES RFI Findings Workshop - A Community Workshop to Shape the Future of NASA’s Astrobiology Strategy - Astrobiology The NASA Astrobiology Program invites you to participate in a two-day hybrid workshop

NASA-DARES RFI Findings Workshop - A Community Workshop to Shape the Future of NASA’s Astrobiology Strategy
astrobiology.com/2025/05/nasa... #astrobiology

The third SETI Symposium, presented by the Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center, will be hosted at the Penn Stater Hotel and Convention Center on August 18–21, 2025.

We are excited to announce registration and abstract submission for talks, posters, and breakout sessions are now open for the 2025 SETI Symposium at Penn State, August 18-21, 2025!

sites.psu.edu/setisymposiu...

Please help us spread the word and we hope to see you in State College!

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The evidence for biosignatures on K2-18b is flimsy, at best A Cambridge-based team claims to find molecules on an exoplanet that are only produced by life on Earth. Don't fall for the unfounded hype.

The evidence for biosignatures on K2-18b is flimsy, at best

Last week, Cambridge scientists announced the discovery of DMS and DMDS on K2-18b: what they call a "surefire biosignature."

Now, cut through the hype and get to the truth.

bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #astronomy #science

YouTube video by Green Bank Observatory 2025.03.12 - Daniela de Paulis (SETI Institute

My recent talk at the Green Bank Observatory is now online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oWz...

Abstract submissions are open for NAM 2025!

Here's what sessions are on offer as part of our Facility strand!

Submit your abstracts here: conference.astro.dur.ac.uk/event/7/abst...

@royalastrosoc.bsky.social

Lights, camera, action!

The world's largest digital camera has been installed at NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory! 🤩

The LSST Camera was the final major component of the observatory. With it in place, Rubin officially enters its final phase of testing!🔭

🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/lsst-camera-installed

black and white conference photo from the 1971 meting at Byurakan on Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CETI) "The First International Conference on Extraterrestrial Civilizations and Problems of Contact with Them". Background photo of the dome of the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO) in Armenia and surrounding gorse and sky.

Excited to launch the next Cosmoimaginaries season with a talk from Gabriela Radulescu:

📡 Earthly and extraterrestrial connections: CETI / SETI in Armenia & Czechoslovakia (the search for extraterrestrial intelligence)

Fri 21st March 9am NZDT
All welcome.

Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Mysterious radio pulses from space have been tracked down – and the source is not what astronomers expected Recently, astronomers have been puzzled by an unknown type of cosmic radio signal. A new breakthrough has finally traced one of them.

A mysterious radio signal from space has been tracked down to an unexpected star!
Read The Conversation article by OzGrav postdoc Dr Iris de Ruiter here: theconversation.com/a-mysterious...
#OzGrav #Astronomy #NatureAstronomy #RadioPulses #SpaceScience #WhiteDwarf

Les métamorphoses de la Terre : de poussières d’étoiles à planète Extraits du livre de l'astrobiologiste Nathalie Cabrol auteure de Inséparables, Les destins croisés de la Terre et de la vie.

🔭🌏 Cette semaine dans Terrestres, on prend beaucoup (mais alors vraiment beaucoup) de recul sur l’époque : on parle matière primordiales et atmosphère naissante avec l’astrobiologiste Nathalie Cabrol ☄️💥💫
Extrait de son livre sur la Terre et la vie, à lire ici ⤵️
www.terrestres.org/2025/02/17/l...