SETI Research Proposes Stellar Activity Could Obscure Alien Signals

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Published: 2026-06-16
Category: science
Source: ScienceDaily (citing SETI Institute)
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A new study from the SETI Institute suggests that turbulent plasma and intense stellar storms around distant stars could distort ultra-narrow radio transmissions. This effect might make extraterrestrial signals much harder for current search methods to detect. The findings imply that alien messages could have reached Earth but remained unrecognized due to these stellar interferences, especially from common M-dwarf stars.

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