Solar winds and coronal mass ejections may scatter narrow signals, making them harder for Earth-based telescopes to detect.

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 ...

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

Our search for extraterrestrial life has turned up empty, perhaps because technologically advanced civilizations are doomed ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Now, there may be an answer, according to a new paper published on the preprint site arXiv: The aliens are out there, alright. We just have to give them time to notice us and reach out to us. The ...

There's a definite buzz going around this month about aliens from other worlds, or hadn't you noticed? Former US President ...