Space Weather May Mask Extraterrestrial Signals, SETI Study Finds

To the point

Jaymie Vaz explains that space weather can distort ultra-narrow signals from other civilizations, potentially making us miss them with current searches, so SETI researchers want to tailor search methods to how coronal mass ejections reshape signals, especially around M-dwarf stars, using the Allen Telescope Array, Murchison Widefield Array, and TRAPPIST-1 surveys.

SETI thinks we might have missed messages from aliens
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SETI thinks we might have missed messages from aliens

They think the focus was too narrow to account for the possible disturbances that exist out there.