"Where is everybody?" That famous phrase, uttered over lunch by eminent physicist Enrico Fermi, perfectly encapsulated what has since become known as the Fermi paradox: If life happened here on Earth ...

In the summer of 1950, four men sat down for lunch together at Los Alamos. It was, at the time, the center of American physics, and these men were respected contributors to their field. Among them was ...

The Fermi Paradox asks a simple question: if intelligent life is common, why hasn’t it been found? Over the years ‘solutions’ ...

Astronomers made headlines last week by suggesting potential signs of life on the distant exoplanet K2-18b—but is this truly our first glimpse of extraterrestrial beings, or simply wishful thinking?

In our quest to understand our place in the cosmos, two important concepts often emerge: the Fermi Paradox and the Drake Equation. The Fermi Paradox underscores a contradiction between the high ...

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 ...

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