Millions Joined SETI@home Project, Now Astronomers Zero In on 100 Promising Signals

Jan 14, 2026 - 14:00
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Millions Joined SETI@home Project, Now Astronomers Zero In on 100 Promising Signals
A screenshot of the SETI@home user interface on a desktop computer in 2009. Image credit: Robert Sanders / UC Berkeley.

SETI@home, the pioneering distributed-computing project launched in 1999 that enlisted millions of volunteers to analyze radio signals from space, produced some 12 billion detections -- brief bursts of energy that stood out from background noise -- as it combed through observations recorded at the now-defunct Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

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