Radio silence has long puzzled those searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, but the answer might lie much closer to the source of potential signals than previously thought. Conditions around ...

Solar winds near aliens’ homes – and ours – might be blowing away signs of alien technosignatures by broadening signals The SETI Institute, the nonprofit that conducts a search for extraterrestrial ...

Institute has found that we may have missed transmissions from intelligent alien life for a very benign reason. SETI’s searches are focused only on very narrow signals, so the organization typically ...

Turbulent plasma near distant stars could blur ultra-narrow signals before they leave their home star systems - making them ...

Lee said SETI’s paper could answer the Fermi Paradox, the idea that if the universe is billions of years old, where are all ...

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

We may be missing alien radio signals because they have become smeared beyond the narrowband detectors that SETI utilizes, a new study suggests.

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

A new study shows that stars with low magnetic activity are likely to support exoplanetary systems, making the hunt for these celestial objects less random.

For decades, humanity has been looking for answers to unravel the mystery surrounding aliens’ existence, but they have failed ...

According to a new study, any alien civilizations out there? Probably short-lived — and doomed to fail spectacularly. For ...

We might have missed signals from aliens because they are being disrupted by the conditions of space, scientists have warned.