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

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

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

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 ...

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

More than 40% of extant large freshwater animals (megafauna), including carp, salmonids, crocodilians, turtles, beavers, and ...

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 ...

A new study shows that stars with low magnetic activity are likely to support exoplanetary systems, making the hunt for these ...

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

Scientists reveal one key way we might have missed signals from aliens - ‘Smearing’ of signals could mean that there are messages we are missing, researchers say ...

In Amiri’s calculations, Dyson spheres around white dwarfs tend to produce cooler, fainter thermal emission that peaks in the near- to mid-infrared, while M-dwarf cases can radiate more strongly but ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.