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

  • "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
  • New Exhibition Series to Highlight Iconic Artifacts and Documents 2025-05-07

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 News from the European Space Agency (ESA):

  • Week in images: 20-24 April 2026 2026-04-24
    Week in images: 20-24 April 2026 Discover our week through the lens
  • Braving the Arctic for upcoming polar-focused satellites 2026-04-24
    As sea ice continues to succumb to the climate crisis, measuring its decline with precision has never been more urgent. To meet this challenge, the European Space Agency is developing three new Copernicus satellites, each employing distinct but complementary techniques to monitor this fragile component of the Earth system.To ensure the data from these new […]
  • Earth from Space: Cloud patterns over the Canary Islands 2026-04-24
    Image: This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image highlights a distinctive cloud formation north of the Canary Islands of Tenerife and La Gomera.
  • Smile set to launch on 19 May 2026-04-23
    The European-Chinese Smile mission is due to launch on Tuesday 19 May 2026, at 05:52 CEST / 04:52 BST / 00:52 local time on a European Vega-C rocket.