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 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 ...

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

“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 ...

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.

For over six decades, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has been tirelessly scanning the cosmos for signs ...

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 ...