It seems unlikely that, in a universe so vast, we're the only intelligent life that exists. Although we can fashion several hypotheses that might explain our apparent solitude, the most popular ...

After a decade of study and months of research, this video presents three promising solutions to the Fermi Paradox and ...

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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 ...

For centuries, great thinkers have pondered why, given the hundreds of billions of planets in the galaxy, we have seen no compelling signs of intelligent life beyond Earth. Now, scientists are mulling ...

Many explanations for the Fermi Paradox focus on alien superintelligence or cosmic catastrophes, but the real answer might be ...

From Harvard this week comes a compelling and evidence-based answer to the evergreen question: if there's life beyond our planet, where is it? The scientists' logic goes like this: Our sun is an ...