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 ...

Turbulent plasma near distant stars could blur ultra-narrow signals before they leave their home star systems - making them difficult to detect. The post How ‘space weather’ may cause alien signals to ...

What steps can be taken to identify why we haven’t received radio signals from an extraterrestrial intelligence, also called technosignatures? This i | Space ...

For the decades that scientists have been looking for alien signals through a work known as SETI, they have tended to look ...

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 ...

Scientists hunting for extraterrestrial life believe alien civilisations may indeed be attempting to contact Earth, but ...

Solar winds near aliens’ homes – and ours – might be blowing away signs of alien technosignatures by broadening signals The ...

For more than six decades, astronomers have listened for possible signals from extraterrestrial civilisations, with no confirmed detection to date. A new statistical study considers a narrower and ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Getty Images) A new machine learning method has found eight previously undetected “signals of interest” in the search for alien ...

ALIEN-HUNTERS have narrowed down their 21-year-search for extraterrestrial life to 100 “signals of interest”. The mammoth quest has seen scientists trawl through as many as 12 billion signals picked ...