This week astronomers from twelve countries on six continents will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) by beginning a coordinated series of ...

SETI@Home gave rise to an active online community of volunteers and enthusaists. After more than 20 years of searching for extraterrestrial radio signals, the SETI@Home project is going into ...

Pioneering distributed computing project SETI@home has announced it’s shutting down “the volunteer computing part” of its search for alien life after more than 20 years. The project will go into ...

Is there intelligent life in the universe? There are only two possible answers to this question. Either Earth is the only planet with sentient life in the cosmos, or there are other civilizations out ...

Collage of The Earthling Project and Odysseus’ lunar landing. The Earthling Project logo, credit: The Earthling Project. Odysseus moon lander images, credit: Intuitive Machines. March 5, 2024, ...

Called A Sign in Space , the scientific art experiment invites the public to help decode the signal, which is meant to emulate a message from extraterrestrials. Reading time 3 minutes The prospect of ...

The year was 1999, and the Intel Pentium III was the most powerful CPU on the market, screaming along at 500MHz. The University of California Berkeley sought to tap into the power of idling PCs to ...

Berkeley — The longest-running search for radio signals from alien civilizations is getting a burst of new data from an upgraded Arecibo telescope, which means the SETI@home project needs more desktop ...

Fun facts: SETI@Home launched on May 17, 1999 and gathered millions of participants from hundreds of countries to concentrate their computing power on crunching data obtained from radio telescopes. In ...