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


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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