Stellar activity and plasma turbulence could distort narrow radio signals before they leave their home planetary systems, potentially explaining part of the long silence in the search for ...

Lee said SETI’s paper could answer the Fermi Paradox, the idea that if the universe is billions of years old, where are all ...

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

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

A study by alien searchers at the SETI Institute (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) could explain why humanity has ...

For decades, humanity has been looking for answers to unravel the mystery surrounding aliens’ existence, but they have failed ...

According to a new study, any alien civilizations out there? Probably short-lived — and doomed to fail spectacularly. For ...

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 ...

We might have missed signals from aliens because they are being disrupted by the conditions of space, scientists have warned.

Anyone familiar with the search for alien life will have heard of the "Goldilocks Zone" around a star. This is defined as the orbital band where the temperature is just right for liquid water to pool ...

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...

Our search for extraterrestrial life has turned up empty, perhaps because technologically advanced civilizations are doomed ...