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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When it comes to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, methane and other chemical compounds are seen as signs of ...

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 ...

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

There is a mysterious phenomenon in which strong radio signals arrive periodically from space, yet their source remains completely unknown. Known as “long-period radio transients" (LPTs), these ...

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

Are we alone in the Universe? With more than 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe and at least 500 billion planets ...

No alien signals have been detected from an interstellar, cigar-shaped space rock discovered travelling through our Solar System in October, researchers listening for evidence of extraterrestrial ...

Astronomers suggest that space weather could distort alien signals, making them undetectable. This challenges traditional search methods and highlights the need for broader signal detection strategies ...

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