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

The most consequential signal humanity ever detects from another civilization may not arrive as a calm introduction. It may ...

One of the longest-standing techniques in humanity’s search for life beyond Earth may be causing scientists to miss alien ...

A recent SETI Institute study suggests that space weather could blur and weaken extraterrestrial radio signals long before ...

A study by alien searchers at the SETI Institute (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) could explain why humanity has not yet received any alien messages.

Stellar plasma can smear alien radio signals before they escape their star system, making them harder for astronomers to detect.

Radio silence has long puzzled those searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, but the answer might lie much closer to the ...

The researchers who scan the skies for radio signals from extraterrestrials are now rethinking their approach.

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

For four decades, many SETI experiments have focused on finding sharp spikes in frequency but the new study says signals may ...

If advanced aliens lived on a planet within a few hundred to a thousand light years away from Earth, then vast numbers of their signals must already have crossed Earth without being noticed, a new ...

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 ...