Earth’s leading alien hunters believe extraterrestrials could be out there – they’re just having a hard time getting through to us because it’s stormy in space.
Reminiscent of ET’s struggles to “phone home” in Steven Spielberg’s 1982 blockbuster movie, new research by the Silicon Valley-based Seti Institute (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) suggests tempestuous space weather makes radio signals from the distant cosmos harder to detect.