Some of our SETI Institute team members at Pixar Animation Studios. A new documentary film, recently released, celebrates first contact with aliens and highlights the importance of SETI research in ...
The universe should either be crowded with life or harbor hardly any life at all, according to a new study that revamps the Drake equation using probabilistic logic. A common axiom in the search for ...
The Drake Equation looks like a simple way to estimate alien civilizations — but the implications are brutal. If the number is high, it suggests the universe is crowded, and humanity may not be safe ...
FRANK DRAKE, the founder of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), wants to take the search for aliens further: about 82 billion kilometres away, in fact. At this point in space, ...