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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Aliens: "Sorry, you're cutting out!" The post Something May Be Scrambling Alien Messages, NASA-Funded Research Finds appeared ...

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

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 ...

The Deep Space Network (DSN) is just the sort of tool aliens could one-day detect, transmitting from Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL What if the first signal ever detected from an alien lifeform wasn't a ...