For decades, the idea of alien life has lived somewhere between science and science fiction. From Hollywood & Bollywood films to grainy UFO footag.

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Turbulent star environments may broaden alien radio signals, making them harder for SETI to detect. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) Radio ...

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

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 ...

“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 ...