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):

  • Webb reveals stunning panorama of star formation 2026-09-15
    This starry view of the nearby star-forming region IC 348 is one of the largest images from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope released to the public so far. Using Webb, astronomers searched IC 348 for brown dwarfs, which are less massive than the smallest stars. The researchers discovered brown dwarfs just twice the mass […]
  • FLEX and Sentinel-3C launch highlights 2026-09-15
    Video: 00:03:22 ESA’s state-of-the-art FLEX Earth Explorer satellite and the Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite have been launched together aboard a Vega-C rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, marking a new milestone in Europe’s Earth Observation Programmes. Flight VV30 lifted off on 15 September at 03:21 (14 September at 22:21 local time).  FLEX is designed to reveal […]
  • FLEX and Sentinel-3C launched 2026-09-15
    The European Space Agency’s FLEX Earth Explorer satellite and the Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite have been launched together aboard a Vega-C rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, marking a new milestone in Europe’s Earth Observation Programmes.
  • Questions? Ask our Hera Space Companion! 2026-09-14
    Meet a key member of our Hera asteroid mission team: the Hera Space Companion, not just an AI chatbot but a dynamic mission-linked communication platform, designed to make the European Space Agency’s first planetary defence mission accessible to everyone!