Astronomers raised hopes that humanity might not be alone in the universe by announcing on Thursday they have detected the ...

Among them was Enrico Fermi, a giant in the fields of quantum mechanics and thermodynamics. But the men were relaxing over lunch, and the conversation was not erudite. Nuclear physicist Emil ...

The position of this Great Filter, as he named it, is critically important as we contemplate the future of humanity. If the ...

Enrico Fermi, Italian-American physicist, received the 1938 Nobel Prize in physics for identifying new elements and discovering nuclear reactions by his method of nuclear irradiation and bombardment.

In a Universe that's more than 13 billion years old and home to hundreds of billions of stars, one question still haunts ...

The detection of a gas linked to life on exoplanet K2-18b could reshape not just astronomy but our own self-perception—are we ...

This contradiction is known as the Fermi Paradox, first proposed by physicist Enrico Fermi in 1950. Humanity has been around for just 200,000 years, and we've been listening for possible radio ...

“Where is everybody?” Enrico Fermi asked fellow famous physicists including Edward Teller over lunch in 1950. This quandary was named Fermi’s Paradox. “It’s a numbers game,” Jason ...