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The Fermi Paradox: Firstborn

As ancient and vast as the Universe is, it seems like some alien race arose in the galaxy long before us, but who rose before ...
Life is incredibly complicated, but for most of Earth’s history it was much simpler. Is it possible the Universe is full of planets with very simple life, and complex organisms are rare?
Former Texan Governor Rick Perry is listed at the top, as co-founder and director. Perry, who once forgot in a debate the ...
Scientists suggest advanced alien civilizations might remain undetectable, using AI and exotic communication. They also ...
Even with modest assumptions, the Drake Equation often suggests the galaxy should be chock full of extraterrestrial neighbors ...
A NASA scientist has offered perhaps the most sensible explanation as to why aliens have been ghosting us for all these years ...
It's one of life's biggest unanswered questions: if there's life beyond Earth, why hasn't it contacted us? Now, a scientist ...
The Milky Way contains a modest amount of alien civilizations, a new paper proposes — and there's a reason we aren't seeing ...
An astrophysicist has proposed an intriguing explanation for why humanity has never made contact with an extraterrestrial ...
The idea is based on the Fermi Paradox, which questions why we haven't yet detected signs of intelligent extraterrestrial ...
Is there a reason aliens are ghosting us? Maybe they are bored of trying? That’s the latest theory from scientists who ...