The big-idea explorers at Aperture dive into the Fermi Paradox to investigate why we haven't found any evidence of alien life in our vast universe.

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(via Sabine Hossenfelder) The Fermi Paradox is an estimate that says: Given all we currently know about the universe, we should have found extraterrestrial life already. So why haven’t we? In a paper ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is continuing to have a disruptive impact on ever more parts of humanity. But what does it mean ...

Our search for extraterrestrial life has turned up empty, perhaps because technologically advanced civilizations are doomed to fail. An astrophysicist has proposed an intriguing explanation for why ...

If we could travel at 10 percent of the speed of light, we’d cross the Milky Way Galaxy in one million years. Presumably, an advanced alien civilization could be doing this already, zooming through ...

If life happened here, then it likely happened elsewhere. But as far as we can tell, we're totally alone. So where is everybody? A new analysis proposes an alternative solution to this conundrum, ...

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Are we alone in the universe? The question has tugged at humanity ever since we discovered the enormity of the cosmos. In 1950, Enrico Fermi postulated his famous paradox: If life is common enough in ...

Astronomers raised hopes that humanity might not be alone in the universe by announcing on Thursday they have detected the most promising hints yet of life on a distant planet. But given the age and ...