Artificial intelligence (AI) is continuing to have a disruptive impact on ever more parts of humanity. But what does it mean in the long run? A new paper, available as a preprint on arXiv from ...

Researchers from the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) may have figured out why we have not detected any alien ...

The Fermi paradox asks a simple question with no easy answer: if the galaxy contains hundreds of billions of stars, many with planets, why has no other civilization made contact? One line of research ...

(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 ...

How could the principle of "radical mundanity" proposed by the Fermi paradox help explain why humans haven't found evidence of extraterrestrial technological civilizations (ETCs)? This is what a ...

"Where is everybody?": This question, about the lack of aliens in the vast universe, is called Fermi's paradox - Copyright NASA/AFP/File HO "Where is everybody ...

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 ...

The year is 1950. Physicist Enrico Fermi is eating lunch with a few colleagues outside Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. His shirt ripples in a hot desert wind. He looks up at the sky and ...

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 ...

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.