Often taking the form of the “Fermi paradox”—a 75-year-old thought experiment that explores why there are so many worlds, yet seemingly no alien civilizations—this grand question has ...

The Fermi Paradox underscores a contradiction between the high probability of extraterrestrial civilizations existing in the universe, as suggested by the Drake Equation (a formula designed to ...

In this video, three promising solutions to the Fermi Paradox are explored, addressing the question, "Where is everybody?" A ...

One possible reason why we haven't found any intelligent life in the cosmos the Great Filter argument, which says that very few civilizations make it to the advanced spacefaring stage.

The Fermi Paradox has puzzled scientists for decades: If the universe is so vast and filled with billions of potentially habitable planets, why haven't we encountered any signs of extraterrestrial ...

For 75 years, scientists have consistently pondered the Fermi Paradox, which asks why we don’t hear from other civilizations when there are so many Earth-like worlds in the galaxy.

Shkurko, A. V. (2024). The social science perspective on the Fermi paradox. International Journal of Astrobiology, 23, e13. ... arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.12617 ...