The PSETI Center in the Media

To boldly go: Penn State launches planetary science consortium

Oct 13, 2020 | PSETI Center in the News

Matthew Carrol introduces a the new Consortium for Planetary and Exoplanetary Sciences and Technology. The PSETI Center is one of three founding centers, along with the Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds and the Penn State Astrobiology Research Center.

How big money is powering a massive hunt for alien intelligence

Sep 10, 2020 | PSETI Center in the News

Daniel Clery describes in Science the landscape of SETI funding, featuring PSETI Center members Sofia Sheikh and Jason Wright.

The real science behind SETI’s hunt for intelligent aliens

Jul 25, 2020 | PSETI Center in the News

Madeleine O’Keefe describes the recent resurgence of SETI, and the PSETI Center’s role in it.

Poward State Interviews

Jan 27, 2020 | PSETI Center in the News

Jason Wright sits down with the hosts of Podward State to discuss the PSETI Center and its philosophy.

Penn State to build center to research extraterrestrial life

Nov 21, 2019 | PSETI Center in the News

Samantha York reports on the PSETI Center for WJAC.

Space Alien Research Could Get Its First Grad Program

Nov 18, 2019 | PSETI Center in the News

Sarah Scoles writes in Scientific American about the PSETI Center and its graduate curriculum.

Intelligent Ways to Search for Extraterrestrials

Oct 3, 2019 | PSETI Center in the News

This award-winning New Yorker piece by Adam Mann describes the philosophy behind the PSETI Center.

It’s time to start taking the search for E.T. seriously

Mar 30, 2019 | PSETI Center in the News

Lisa Grossman writes for Science News about the efforts of Jason Wright and others to change the federal funding landscape for SETI, and get NASA and the NSF to once again provide major support for it.

University research center will search for extraterrestrial intelligence

Feb 28, 2019 | PSETI Center in the News

Steve Nadis writes for Science Magazine about the PSETI Center’s training and educational ambitions.