Radio silence has long puzzled those searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, but the answer might lie much closer to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists from the University of California at Berkeley are using the 500-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope in China to check ...

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

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Astronomers using South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope have confirmed a persistent hydroxyl gigamaser signal originating ...

The strange signal - the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever detected - was captured by South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope from a galaxy over 8 billion light-years away ...

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 ...

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.

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

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Gabriela Radulescu, Smithsonian Institution (THE CONVERSATION) As humans began to ...

A constellation of classified defense satellites built by the commercial company SpaceX is emitting a mysterious signal that may violate international standards, NPR has learned. Satellites associated ...