Seth Shostak

Seth Shostak is a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute. He is the host of a weekly radio show, “Big Picture Science.”

Stories from this author

One day it happened. A signal was sent through space and picked up by a telescope tucked in the West Virginia mountains. The author’s colleagues analyzed the data. Was it a signal from intelligent life on another planet?

Aliens on Line 1

For one evening, it looked like we finally had an extraterrestrial signal.