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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 ...

The existence of aliens is becoming more science fact and less science fiction by the day. And yet, despite the encroaching revelation that we are definitely not alone in the universe, Hollywood and ...

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In 1977, a US-backed search for alien signals detected a 72-second radio burst from deep space that was about 30 times stronger than normal background noise. The signal was so unusual that researcher ...