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. Subscribe to our newsletter ...

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 ...

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 ...

For more than two decades, millions of ordinary people turned their home computers into high-powered research tools for one of the most ambitious experiments in history. Now, scientists at UC Berkeley ...

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 ...

The LaserSETI project, a pioneering initiative from the SETI Institute, continues to push the boundaries of optical SETI search using visible light. LaserSETI is designed to detect optical ...

Narrowband signal detection as a potential indicator of artificial radio emissions. Doppler drift correction to account for relative motion between Earth and distant transmitters. Rigorous filtering ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...