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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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For thousands of years, humanity has looked up at the stars asking the same question. Are we alone? Then one day, it finally ...

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Astronomers turned the Allen Telescope Array toward interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, formally designated C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), searching for narrowband radio signals that could indicate alien technology ...

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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A new SETI study argues that turbulent space weather around distant stars can smear out ultra‑narrow alien radio signals, meaning technosignatures may already have reached Earth.