6 billion years old and home to more than 100 billion stars. This reality suggests there is likely a mind-boggling number of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Could there be a technologically advanced extraterrestrial society hiding in NGC 604, a star-forming region of the Triangulum ...

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 ...

The Fermi Paradox asks a simple question: if the universe is so vast, where is everyone? While popular answers focus on technology or distance, lesser-known explanations suggest far stranger ...

Astronomers made headlines last week by suggesting potential signs of life on the distant exoplanet K2-18b—but is this truly our first glimpse of extraterrestrial beings, or simply wishful thinking?

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 ...

"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 ...