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After years of discovering exoplanets at a staggering pace, astronomers are now starting to distinguish the simply ...

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Two newly registered federal website domains – Alien.gov and Aliens.gov – are drawing attention after records showed they were created this week by a U.S. government agency, fueling speculation as ...

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 ...

Scientists believe turbulent “space weather” around distant stars could be scrambling potential alien signals before they ever reach Earth. The idea comes from a new study published in The ...

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

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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 ...

Aliens have invaded the news again. Last month, two US presidents weighed in on the topic in rapid succession, managing to make a public that was already obsessed with extraterrestrials even more so.