New research suggests that alien radio signals may be transformed by plasma from their home stars — and scientists on Earth could thus be overlooking prime evidence of alien intelligence.

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Astronomers turned the Allen Telescope Array toward interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, formally designated C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), ...

Using emerging radio techniques refined during and after the Second World War, the astronomers detected a powerful radio ...

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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 ...

For thousands of years, humanity has looked up at the stars asking the same question. Are we alone? Then one day, it finally ...

With new technologies come new opportunities. And that is especially true in astronomy—with every new advanced telescope, we ...

A study suggests that stellar plasma may distort alien signals, complicating SETI's search for extraterrestrial life by ...

Could the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS exhibit technosignatures, or signals of alien technology? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to address as a team of ...

One of the longest-standing techniques in humanity’s search for life beyond Earth may be causing scientists to miss alien signals entirely, a new study finds. Since the very beginnings of the search ...