For 21 years, between 1999 and 2020, millions of people worldwide loaned UC Berkeley scientists their computers to search for ...

After two decades of quiet data processing on millions of crowd-sourced home computers, the SETI@home project has narrowed ...

For twenty-one years, between 1999 and 2020, millions of people around the world lent the processing cycles of their personal ...

WHAT DOES IT TAKE to detect a radio signal sent by extraterrestrial life to Earth? Two decades of work involving radio ...

Formula BOINC has a series of Marathons and Sprints for a set of BOINC projects. I'm currently working to get Ars Technica registered as a team, but you also need to register your own account. This ...

This month saw the official launch of the Planetary Futures Public Art Residency and welcomed our newest artist in residence, Adrien Segal. Adrien weaves together science, landscape, data, and ...

SETI scientists have detected signals that don’t behave like anything found in nature — narrowband, repeating, and drifting as if something is moving fast. Could these be side effects of alien ...

The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS was discovered on July 1, 2025. There is currently no evidence to suggest that it is anything other than a natural astrophysical object. However, given the small ...

On Dec. 19, 2025, 3I/ATLAS flew by Earth and did more than just give astronomers something to look at; it brought a piece of a far-off, alien world into our backyard. This cosmic vagabond moves at an ...

New models suggest that Europa has very little tectonic activity at its seafloor, which is potentially catastrophic news for the hopes of finding alien life within its ocean. The new findings ...