Is there some evidence suggesting that humans are the Galaxy’s only intelligent species? Enrico Fermi thought so – and he was a pretty smart guy. Could he be right? In 1950, the famous physicist made ...

A test exists for a leading explanation for the nature of dark matter, but it relies on catching a supernova in the moment of ...

As the universe expands (as it does in a dark matter-dominated universe) the distance between us and all other stars ...

Known as "Fermi's Paradox," it simply asks, why, since life on Earth is ubiquitous and developed very early in Earth's history, and the galaxy is very old and not overly large, aren't there ...

The particles that make up dark matter could be created right at the start of a supernova. However, we would need a bit of ...

NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope captured this image of   Giant Gamma-ray Bubbles which helped  scientists discovered a gigantic, mysterious structure in our galaxy.   In this main image, ...

Fermi proposed that the galaxy should have been overrun with intelligent, technologically-advanced aliens. Yet, we have no evidence of this despite decades of searching. This conundrum became ...

and planets on which life appears—to estimate the number of intelligent civilizations in our galaxy. Yet, there has been no evidence of any life beyond Earth. This is referred to as the Fermi ...

Fermi was referring to alien life in the universe. Arguably, he said, in the 4.4 billion years it took for intelligent life to evolve on our planet, the rest of our galaxy should have been overrun ...