Research from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute has found that we may have missed transmissions from intelligent alien life for a very benign reason. SETI’s searches are ...

"If a signal gets broadened by its own star's environment, it can slip below our detection thresholds, even if it's there." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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Scientists believe turbulent “space weather” around distant stars could be scrambling potential alien signals before they ...

New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder to detect.

E.T. could be phoning home — but we’re not hearing the call. A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal argues that “space weather” could be distorting incoming transmissions from ...

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Scientists believe the most likely first contact will come through faint radio signals, not spacecraft, as we listen for ...

SETI Institute researchers suggest solar winds may have obscured alien signals by widening their frequency bands, potentially ...

A new study by the SETI Institute suggests that the alien signals might be right here, surrounding us all of the time, and we ...

Sohrab Rahvar and Shahin Rouhani’s recent paper, “Constraining the Lifespan of Intelligent Technological Civilization in the Galaxy,” lays it out bluntly: Advanced civilizations last roughly 5,000 ...