SETI@home is a scientific experiment, based at UC Berkeley, that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by running a free program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data.

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Pablo Martin Rondina
20 YEARS !!!! with Seti@Home is incredible, I think my first run of Seti@home project was in an AMD 586 processor in May fo 1999, is amazing how far...

Weekly Outage and Initial Catch Up
Every Tuesday morning (Pacific time) we begin a five hour data distribution outage for database and systems maintenance. The upload/download servers will be offline during this time. Afterwards you may experience connectivity issues for several more hours as the servers catch up with demand.
24 Apr 2019, 19:27:55 UTC

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2019 SETI.Germany Wow! anniversary event: 15-29 August
Every year SETI.Germany organizes an event in honor of the anniversary of the Wow! signal. This year's event (the 42nd anniversary) takes place from 15 to 29 August . Further information can be found here .
22 Jul 2019, 23:13:46 UTC · Discuss

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New SETI Perspectives: "Seeing the Unseeable: The Black Hole Image"
Richard Lawn has posted another interesting article to "SETI Perspectives". This one is titled Seeing the Unseeable: The Black Hole Image and is about the Event Horizon Telescope's image of the black hole in M87.
5 Jul 2019, 21:10:42 UTC · Discuss

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Article on SETI@home's 20th anniversary
An article by Ben Lindbergh in The Ringer discusses the history and status of SETI@home as it turns 20.
25 May 2019, 13:45:15 UTC · Discuss

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20 years and counting!
Happy Anniversary! On this date in 1999, SETI@home came online. Since then millions of our volunteers have helped us sift through petabytes of data from multiple radio telescopes. ET still hasn't shown up to the party.

We're not discouraged. We're able to examine less than a tenth of a percent of the radio spectrum, over only 1/3 of the sky and a limited number of additional stars. But our capabilities are increasing every day. In 1999 it took up to a week to process a single workunit on a home PC. Now, on a machine with a GPU, it might only take a few minutes to do a far more detailed and more sensitive analysis. Who knows what the next 20 years will bring?
17 May 2019, 17:39:43 UTC · Discuss

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SETI Perspectives article "Coming of Age for Optical SETI"
Richard Lawn has written a new article, this one on the Panoramic Optical SETI effort, PANOSETI. As a bonus he includes a bit of an update on 'Oumuamua.
10 May 2019, 18:52:19 UTC · Discuss

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