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

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

For four decades, many SETI experiments have focused on finding sharp spikes in frequency but the new study says signals may not stay narrow as they travel away from their home system.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For decades, humanity has scoured the cosmos for any signs that we aren't alone in the universe. But now, researchers at the SETI ...

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

A new study by the SETI Institute suggests that the alien signals might be right here, surrounding us all of the time, and we're just unable to pick them out.

A new study by researchers at the SETI Institute suggests stellar "space weather" could make radio signals from ...

Researchers who listen for signs of non-human life say signals ‘can slip below detection thresholds, even if it’s there’ ...