"Intelligent life in the Universe is exceptionally rare, assuming that intelligent life elsewhere requires analogous evolutionary transitions [to Earth]," reads the new study in the scientific ...

“We're arguing that intelligent life may not require a series of lucky breaks to exist,” said Mills, who worked in Professor ...

Under this model, the probability of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe was expected to be low. However, this ...

“Running through its argument gives you a bleak outlook on our galaxy’s intelligent ... universe? Or would we lose our collective minds? “As much as the discovery of extraterrestrial life ...

Intelligent life may be extremely rare in our universe, according to Princeton University Astrophysical Sciences Professor Ed Turner. This view is not surprising, since intelligence is also rare ...

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe -- and in any hypothetical ones beyond it -- can be estimated by a new theoretical model which has echoes of the famous Drake Equation.

Silence. Complete, unnerving silence. Despite decades of searches for any form of life, intelligent or otherwise, out there in the cosmos, the Universe has but one message for us: No one is answering.

The theme will be “Can we recognize intelligent life in the universe?” and will feature Mayor, Starmus founder and astrophysicist Garik Israelian, and moderator and science popularizer David ...

Are we alone in the universe? There are good reasons to suspect that we ... This might also be the case for any other intelligent life trying to communicate. “They might employ highly complex signal ...

The images are generated from a suite of cosmological simulations. The chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe – and in any hypothetical ones beyond it – can be estimated by a new ...