Enrico Fermi's lunchtime question at wartime Los Alamos, "Where is everybody?" has been both a gift and a problem to scientists ever since. Known as "Fermi's Paradox," it simply asks, why, since life ...

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 ...

As famed scientist and science communicator Arthur C. Clarke once said, “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe, or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” This statement ...

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 ...