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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study has found that stellar “space weather” could be making it significantly harder to detect potential signals from aliens ...

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A new SETI study suggests we may be overlooking alien signals not because they aren't there, but because their own stars are scrambling them before they escape into space. Turbulent plasma and ...

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The IAA SETI Committee has updated rules for evaluating and revealing the detection of extraterrestrial intelligence. A University of Manchester astronomer has led a major international overhaul of ...