A "crowdsourced" project in which home computer users were enlisted to help analyze radio signals from space is ending after more than two decades.

The likelihood is that they will turn out to be radio frequency interference — but it's worth checking, scientists say. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SETI@home had millions of volunteers from around the world helping in the search for extraterrestrial life. After reviewing almost ...

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 ...

For twenty-one years, between 1999 and 2020, millions of people around the world lent the processing cycles of their personal computers to scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, to ...

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 ...

For 21 years, between 1999 and 2020, millions of people worldwide loaned UC Berkeley scientists their computers to search for signs of advanced civilizations in our galaxy. The project—called ...

The school superintendent investigating a former employee who ran the SETI@home program on school computers doesn’t understand how the technology works or that the project is well-respected, experts ...

If you were to create a poem for an alien - how would you do it? Would you write things down? Would you tape an audio recording? Or maybe a video? The SETI AIR program’s Exoplanetary Poetry team is ...

Now that NASA’s Kepler space telescope has identified 1,235 possible planets around stars in our galaxy, astronomers at the University of California, Berkeley, are aiming a radio telescope at the most ...