The search for life in outer space hit a snag earlier this week when the SETI@Home project ran into some very terrestrial problems. A group of vandals apparently disrupted cables in the SETI@Home ...

Long before scientists discovered that other stars in the universe host their own planetary systems, humanity had ...

It's always nice to feel useful, even if not much comes of it in the end. The millions of people who, over the past two decades, donated their home computers' processing power to the SETI@home search ...

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 ...

There’s been a lot of buzz about Area 51 lately, as millions of people have signed up to “storm” the U.S. Military base as a result of an internet joke that exploded into the online stratosphere this ...

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 ...

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, ...