RSS feed: News from the National Archives (U.S.): News from the National Archives (U.S.):

  • Free and Independent: Special Major Exhibition Opens as a “Celebration of the Declaration” 2026-04-27
  • "Freedom Plane National Tour" takes flight 2026-03-02
  • Immersive New Museum Opens at National Archives in Washington, DC 2025-11-21
  • All New National Archives Museum to Open on October 23, 2025 2025-06-06

SETI @ Home ends after 21 years of research


Since May 1999, people around the world have participated in Seti@home. According to Seti@home’s page, it is an Internet-based public volunteer computing project employing the BOINC software platform created by the Berkeley SETI Research Center and is hosted by the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley.

I was a member of the Seti@home community from 2006 until the program ended on March 31, 2020.

 

RSS feed: News from the European Space Agency (ESA): News from the European Space Agency (ESA):

  • ESA starts next phase of IRIS² evolution through Low-LEO activities 2026-09-17
    The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed 18 consolidation contracts bringing together nearly 80 companies to study new secure and resilient connectivity services. The contracts also cover associated mission concepts and aim to shape the future of the EU's secure connectivity constellation – IRIS² – which will provide Europeans with resilient communications, when and where it […]
  • Three space companies win ESA awards for excellence and innovation 2026-09-17
    On 16 September at its Industry Space Days 2026 event at ESA–ESTEC in the Netherlands, the European Space Agency (ESA) honoured three space companies with this year’s prestigious awards for excellence and innovation. 
  • Galileo's first civil authenticated position fix under spoofing conditions 2026-09-17
    For two hours on the afternoon of Wednesday 16 September, five operational Galileo satellites broadcasting over Europe transmitted a new encrypted signal for testing. On the ground in Andøya, Norway, and at ESA’s navigation laboratory at ESTEC, in the Netherlands, receivers successfully established their location using these encrypted signals, marking the first real-world positioning using […]
  • Faster-flowing glaciers fuel decades of polar ice loss 2026-09-16
    The longest satellite data record of ice-sheet change ever assembled has revealed that Greenland and Antarctica have lost a staggering 11 trillion tonnes of ice since the 1970s, driving global sea level up by more than three centimetres.However, the new findings also highlight that the story is not simply one of ice melting at the […]