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 ...

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, ...

The search for extraterrestrial life in this vast universe needs all hands on deck. A crowd-sourced project from UC Berkeley called on volunteers to lend their home computers to search for signs 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 ...

For the past 50 minutes, my laptop has been searching for E.T. No, really. We’re talking about the proverbial aliens-in-outer-space stuff here. Through downloadable software called BOINC (Berkeley ...

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 ...

In 1960, astronomer Frank Drake pointed the Green Bank Observatory’s giant radio telescope at two Sun-like stars for 150 hours hoping to find a hint of alien life. Drake’s search was unsuccessful but ...

People have been looking up at the Milky Way for thousands of years, marveling at its vastness. It was only a matter of time before they began to wonder if life similar to ours could exist on the ...