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

A recent SETI Institute study suggests that space weather could blur and weaken extraterrestrial radio signals long before ...

Astronomer Jill Tarter has been scanning the skies for signals from intelligent aliens for the past 35 years, but now she's making a career change. Tarter, the inspiration for heroine Ellie Arroway in ...

A recent theory proposed by a NASA scientist suggests that extraterrestrial civilizations may not possess the wildly advanced technology that many UFO enthusiasts expect. This perspective, which ...

Researchers at SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) might be looking for the wrong thing, says one of SETI's astronomers in The Guardian. They're looking for aliens that are like us.

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In the third week of August 1977, Ohio State University astronomer Jerry Ehrman was going over a computer printout of signals collected a few days earlier from his university’s “Big Ear” radio ...

SETI Institute researchers suggest solar winds may have obscured alien signals by widening their frequency bands, potentially ...

In the endless search for technosignatures—signs from some technologically advanced intelligent alien civilization—we’ve done everything from monitoring radio arrays to hypothesizing about whether ...

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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 ...

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