SETI thinks it could have missed calls from aliens. Here's why
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New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder to detect.
For decades, humanity has scoured the cosmos for any signs that we aren't alone in the universe.
NASA spacecraft like the twin Voyager probes – launched in the 1970s bearing the iconic Golden Record – exoplanet-hunting missions and ground telescopes here on Earth have searched far and wide for any indication that extraterrestrials are out there.
And the only answer they've gotten in return? Radio silence.
But now, researchers at the SETI institute are wondering if the reason first contact has yet to be made with alien life is because we simply aren't getting their messages.
Could space weather be messing with calls coming from advanced extraterrestrial life that's diluting the radio signals into something scientists on Earth tend to ignore? New research published by scientists at SETI suggests it's definitely possible.
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