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

SETI has spent decades listening for a sharp, well-defined radio signal that could indicate it was sent by distant intelligent life. Now researchers believe that space weather could distort and blur s ...

How would we recognize a message from an alien civilization if we cannot understand its language? By combining information theory, Zipf’s Law, and studies of human and dolphin communication, ...

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

Credit: Sam Kriegman/Northwestern University/Cover Images Engineers in the United States have created AI-powered robots that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Earthlings, brace yourselves: the galaxy may be emptier than your last Tinder date. According to a new study, any alien ...

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

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 ...

In 2011, Paul Krugman infamously declared that the US could revitalize its slow economy if it were to prepare for an invasion of space aliens. Would the real ...

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