It was a simple question asked over lunch in 1950. Enrico Fermi, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped usher in the ...

The curious minds at What If explain how finding alien life with the right telescope could completely alter our understanding ...

The search for extraterrestrial life has long gone back and forth between scientific curiosity, public fascination and ...

But new research from the University of Chicago is urging caution. After analyzing data from multiple observations of the ...