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

These findings suggest that the absence of past detections does not mean discovery is imminent. If extraterrestrial ...

Humans have wondered for centuries whether we are alone in the universe — and a new study suggests that if alien ...

The search for alien life no longer feels like pure speculation. This video walks through the strongest signs ever put forward, from the Wow Signal to Martian fossil claims and other near-breakthrough ...

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 ...

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Discover the mysterious ‘Wow!’ signal, a 1977 transmission that sparked decades of speculation about extraterrestrial life.

In March 2026, SETI Institute researchers contributed to a wide range of conversations about our solar system and the search ...

A recent SETI Institute study suggests that space weather could blur and weaken extraterrestrial radio signals long before they reach us.

For a long time, it was thought that this [technique] required telescopes in space,” says John Mather, the Nobel ...

By applying machine learning to vast TESS datasets, researchers have built one of the most precise catalogs of nearby exoplanets to date.