News

Jan 06, 2006
New Milestone broken. The 3/4 million mark was reached today. One Million within 5 weeks with current crunching and team strength.

Jan 09, 2006
New Black Hole Discovery Found Researchers from the University of Iowa have discovered a star orbiting a black hole.

Jan 17, 2006
Transmitting to a Million Worlds: Hardly a week goes by without some keyboard correspondent reluctantly telling me that SETI has a honking big problem. “Even if the Galaxy is brimming with intelligent life,” they’ll gravely intone, “SETI has virtually no chance of success.”

Jan 19, 2006

1) Outer Limits: Solar system at the fringe

2) SUCCESS: Stardust Capsule Reentry Observing Campaign

3) The Kepler Mission: by Jon Jenkins, Kepler Mission Analysis Lead and Co-Investigator for Signal Processing and Transit Detection, SETI Institute

Jan 27, 2006
Astronomers find small, distant planet: Astronomers say they've found what may be the smallest and most distant planet known to be orbiting a star outside our own solar system.

Jan 27, 2006
Closer To Home: Discovery Of Small, Rocky, Extrasolar World Suggests Such Planets May Be Common. Using a relatively new planet-hunting technique that can spot worlds one-tenth the mass of our own, researchers have discovered a potentially rocky, icy body that may be the smallest planet yet found orbiting a star outside our solar system.

Jan 28, 2006
The Einstein@Home project now has more than 100,000 users with computing credit. But at the present rate, our current S4 search will take more than 200 days to complete, so please ask your friends and colleagues to sign up!

Feb 03, 2006
Team Milestone was broken this morning, Team-Genesis broke it's first million cobblestones. A big thanks to all team members. This brings our world rank to 339th place out of 35,493 teams in total.. And Country rank remains unchanged at 7th.

Feb 07, 2006
What if ET isn't cute? What if extraterrestrial life doesn't even touch the surface of a faraway planet, but instead floats above its hostile surface like a hot-air balloon?

Feb 07, 2006
How to Steal a Million Stars?

Feb 07, 2006
The Holy Grail: Small, Rocky Worlds

Feb 14, 2006

BOINC and Climateprediction.net have joined forces with the BBC to launch a new experiment, a full simulation of climate change from 1920 to 2080, described on a BBC television documentary Meltdown (BBC-4, February 20th, for UK BOINCers). SETI@home participants can attach to http://bbc.cpdn.org (be warned that a 160-year climate simulation is a long workunit even by Climateprediction.net's extravagant standards).

Feb 15, 2006

BBC links to huge climate project: The BBC is inviting viewers to join the world's biggest online climate prediction project; the BBC's overview of the BBC Climate Change Experiment

BBC wants your clock-cycles - to predict climate change; an overview of the BBC Climate Change Experiment and the BBC television programs associated with it, and a user's guide to the client software applicaton

Climate Change Model Harnesses Home Computers: The BBC, Britain's Meteorological Office, Oxford University, and the University of California at Berkeley on Tuesday launched a program, and software, to mobilize idle time of home computers to better predict climate change; a short overview of the BBC Climate Change Experiment

Oxford seeks PC users to help map climate change; an overview of the BBC Climate Change Experiment

March 31, 2006
8 Worlds Where Life Might Exist

March 31, 2006

The SETI Institute’s Science Radio Show Joins Discovery Channel Radio Lineup. The SETI Institute’s weekly radio program about life on and beyond Earth, "Are We Alone?" will begin broadcast on Discovery Channel Radio in March. The show, a growing favorite with podcast listeners, now joins Discovery’s new radio network, a premier outlet for programs devoted to the coverage of science and technology.

April 06, 2006
Did humans descend from Martian microbes ? Astrobiology sounds like the stuff of lava lamps and Jetsons reruns. Yet seven years after NASA launched a formal astrobiology research program, scientists of every stripe - geologists, biologists, chemists, ...

April 10, 2006
Next cancer breakthrough from your home PC?: Rosetta@home project seeks to harness computers for medical research

April 25, 2006
Project targets avian influenza: Distributed computing fighting bird flu; an overview of D2OL's Avian Influenza project

April 25, 2006
Patel: While your computer wastes time it could be predicting the weather; an overview of climateprediction.net

April 25, 2006
Grid 2.0: The Global Grid Gets Hip

May 19, 2006
Volunteer Computer Grids--Beyond SETI@home; a detailed overview of distributed and grid computing, plus histories, descriptions and results for many public distributed computing projects

June 21, 2006
The Case for Transmitting to Space

June 24, 2006
Early this morning Team-Genesis took 6th spot in the Canadian Seti standings. And are currently within a week of striking 5th spot. Congratulations to all team members. Everyone's effort no matter how great or small helped make this possible, and is appreciated

June 26, 2006
Early this morning Team-Genesis took 5th spot in the Canadian Seti standings. And are currently 3-4 weeks from 4th spot. Congratulations to all team members.

June 30, 2006
Huge Asteroid to Fly Past Earth July 3. An asteroid possibly as large as a half-mile or more in diameter is rapidly approaching the Earth. There is no need for concern, for no collision is in the offing, but the space rock will make an exceptionally close approach to our planet early on Monday, July 3, passing just beyond the Moon’s average distance from Earth.

July 4, 2006
Asteroid Zips Harmlessly Past Earth

July 17, 2006
Early today we broke the 2.5 million cobblestone mark, congrates to all participants.

July 25, 2006
Late yesterday afternoon Team-Genesis took 4th place in the Canadian Standings. Congrates and thank you to all the team members and their effort.

Aug 29, 2006
Pluto No Longer A Planet For decades, it's been confused with a cartoon dog and ridiculed as a puny poser.

Aug 29, 2006
Eight is enough Bye bye, Pluto. The smallest of the solar system's planets was demoted to 'dwarf' status Thursday after the International Astronomical Union decided to downgrade the ninth rock from the sun in historic new .

Aug 29, 2006
Mariner Meteor Mystery, Solved? In 1967, NASA's Mariner 4 spacecraft was hit by a surprising flurry of meteoroids--a shower more intense than any Leonid meteor storm. Where did the meteoroids come from? It's been a mystery for 40 years.

Aug 29, 2006
Telescope set to reveal 'Big Bang'

Sept 5, 2006
Optimized Team Genesis Seti Clients for P3 Intel cpu's with sse now available.

Sept 7, 2006
Team-Genesis Welcomes our newest active member NOVA.

Sept 8, 2006
Study: Earthlike planets may be common WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Earthlike planets covered with deep oceans that could harbor life may be found in as many as a third of solar systems discovered outside of our own, U.S. researchers said on Thursday

Sept 8, 2006
Scientist: Planet going back to dinosaur eraNORWICH, England (Reuters) -- Global warming over the coming century could mean a return of temperatures last seen in the age of the dinosaur and lead to the extinction of up to half of all species, a scientist said on Thursday.

Sept 11, 2006
Other Earths 'common in space.' Earth-like planets, possibly teeming with life, may exist around many stars beyond our own solar system, according to a new space study.

Sept 11, 2006
Earth-like planets could litter the galaxy. Would-be galactic colonists got a boost this week when a paper in the journal Science suggested that Earth-like planets might be more common than previously thought.

Sept 15, 2006
Now available to Team-Genesis a team forum with live chat. Please Visit and register here: http://team-genesis.mypunbb.com/

Sept 20, 2006
Listening for E.T.'S call Jill Tarter favors her flying-saucer/Martian salt-and-pepper set. But don't mistake her for one of those kookie types who live in desert trailers prepping for the aliens to arrive.

Sept 23, 2006

News Flash

Another Milestone for Team - Genesis was achieved today. 3 million Cobblestones, from a small numbered team of 15 with 10 active members. Great Work Gang. May we continue our quest for many millions more. :-)

Please visit our very own team forum & Chat site and give us your thoughts.

Oct 5 2006
Hubble finds distant extrasolar planets Hubble finds distant extrasolar planets BALTIMORE, Oct. 4 -- NASA's Hubble space telescope has found 16 extrasolar planet candidates orbiting a variety of distant stars in the central area of the Milky Way .

Oct 5 2006
Team-Genesis Welcomes it's newest two members rosyboa and David V. Girdlestone

Oct 7, 2006
Congratulation to the Maltese-Falcon for becoming the third team member to break the 1/2 million cobblestone mark.

Oct 12, 2006
Astronomers on Lookout for 'Killer' Asteroids The huge Pan-Starrs telescope on the Hawaiian island of Maui, which is equipped with the world's largest digital camera, will enable astronomers to investigate small objects in the solar system and search for

Oct 12, 2006
Hubble boost to search for ET

Oct 12, 2006
$1m grant to search for new Earth Looking up: Astronomer Christopher Tinney has received a federal research grant of over $1m to search for new planets outside our solar system.

Oct 12, 2006
Russian scientists deny comet will collide with Earth soon PETERSBURG, October 12, 2006. KAZINFORM. - Scientists from Russia's central observatory

Oct 16, 2006
Hubble Zeroes in on Nearest Known Exoplanet. Hubble observations confirm that planets form from disks around stars

Oct 16, 2006

NASA hunts for a new Earth NASA is searching the galaxy for Earth--or at least a planet that is similar to our home planet. The space agency has several ongoing projects to identify new planets outside our solar system. Once the planets are identified, the aim is to send space missions to study them and, it is hoped, find one that is similar to Earth.

The latest findings bring the total of known planets outside our solar system to 199.

Oct 24, 2006
Team-Genesis Welcomes it's newest member pkspock.

Oct 25, 2006
PlanetQuest: Join the Hunt for Extrasolar Planets

Oct 25, 2006
Carl Sagan Center Formed to Study Life in the Universe

Oct 30, 2006
Congratulation to Ronin for becoming the second team member to break the 1 Million Cobblestones milestone mark.

Nov 06, 2006
Dead stars provide Einstein test. Scientists have put Einstein's theory of gravity to a remarkable test using two distant, dead stars.

Nov 15, 2006
E.T. liable to phone any day. Intelligent life is likely abundant in the cosmos, and we will find evidence of it soon, according to one of the world's top experts on the ongoing search for extraterrestrial life.

Nov 15, 2006
French satellite to search for new planets The first satellite dedicated solely to seeking out new planets beyond our solar system will be launched next month, the European Space Agency said today.

Nov 15, 2006
NASA Confirms Dark Energy The theory of dark energy is reaffirmed. According to an upcoming teleconference being held by NASA on Thursday, there is new evidence to support the dark energy is and has been present in the universe for

Dec 23, 2006
I've been very busy the last month so I'll take this minute, should I forget. To wish everyone a Merry Christmas, and to thank everyone for their team support over the last 12 months. MERRY CHRISTMAS ONE AND ALL!

Dec 27, 2006
European planet-hunter set to launch Satelite will look for slight dip in starlight caused by planet's passage