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Sep 8, 2023 · Maybe there are aliens out there, but they remain silent, slipping through the dark vastness of space in an effort to remain hidden. And maybe our assumptions are wrong.
May 8, 2024 · It’s “sort of morbid,” he says. A New York astronomer believes gamma-ray bursts may be to blame for us not finding aliens. The universe’s most powerful form of energy explosion has the ...
Jul 3, 2018 · In early June, Anders Sandberg, Eric Drexler, and Toby Ord of the Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) released a paper that may solve the Fermi paradox — the discrepancy between our expected...
- Liv Boeree
Mar 31, 2019 · The hypothesis holds that they can see us, but we can't see them. Some astronomers ascribe to the so-called zoo hypothesis, which holds that space aliens are keeping Earth and its inhabitants in...
- Senior Astronomer at The SETI Institute
- There aren't any aliens to find. As unlikely as it seems in a galaxy with hundreds of billions of stars and as many as 40 billion Earth-size planets in habitable zones, we could be alone.
- There is no intelligent life besides us. (This assumes, of course, that humans count as intelligent.) Life may exist, but it could simply take the form of miniscule microbes or other cosmically "quiet" animals.
- Intelligent species lack advanced technology. Currently, astronomers utilize radio telescopes to listen intently to the night sky. So if alien species aren't broadcasting any signals, we'd never know they existed.
- Intelligent life self-destructs. Whether via weapons of mass destruction, planetary pollution, or manufactured virulent disease, it may be the nature of intelligent species to commit suicide, existing for only a short time before winking out of existence.
Nov 2, 2021 · Scientists tracked a mysterious signal in space. Its source was closer to Australia. That's why Green and NASA are proposing a scale to better contextualize new findings in research about ...
Jan 10, 2020 · Maybe not. It’s possible they’re here right now and we simply can’t see them.” Such life would exist in a “shadow biosphere”. By that, I don’t mean a ghost realm, but undiscovered ...
