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.

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 ...

Turbulent plasma near distant stars could blur ultra-narrow signals before they leave their home star systems - making them ...

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.

“The universe is not as quiet as we were told.” The line belongs to a dramatic retelling of a disputed signal claim, but it captures a sober scientific problem: the first technosignature humanity ...

Emily Blunt is possessed by aliens in the new trailer for Steven Spielberg's next must-watch sci-fi movie. See it here.

A Russian FPV drone was destroyed after an encounter with a weird new Ukrainian weapon. Is this a high-powered laser or something else entirely?

SETI researchers may have missed alien signals due to a cosmic phenomenon that distorts narrowband radio waves, new research says.

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A buried radio pulse has become the clearest case yet that one of astronomy’s strangest repeating signals comes from a likely two-star system, two stars bound together by gravity and orbiting each ...