The Fermi Paradox ponders an endlessly fascinating question: If so many worlds exist in the universe, why haven’t we detected any sign of extraterrestrial life? A possible reason, called the ...

If the universe is full of habitable worlds, where is everybody?” A viral Reddit thread reignited the debate, mixing alien ...

As it turns out, the cute, stylish visuals are the most comforting part of their latest video, which tackles the looming, unsolved, and somewhat disturbing mystery of the Fermi paradox—or, why ...

For 75 years, scientists have consistently pondered the Fermi Paradox, which asks why we don’t hear from other civilizations when there are so many Earth-like worlds in the galaxy. A recent study ...

It was a simple question asked over lunch in 1950. Enrico Fermi, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped usher in the atomic age, was dining with colleagues at Los Alamos, New Mexico, when the ...

What do tennis and the search for extraterrestrial intelligent life have in common? Well, don't ask us because we don't know either. However, French tennis player Térence Atmane has put the two on a ...

Galaxies "blazing with technosignatures" could suggest the existence of a "large number" of "different metasocieties." ...

(via PBS Space Time) Around 2 billion years ago, life had plateaued in complexity, ruined the atmosphere, and was on the verge of self-annihilation. But then something strange and potentially ...

In this excerpt from his new book, John Gertz argues it’s time to ditch SETI’s old dogmas and rethink how we prepare for ...

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