The Drake equation provides a way to guess how many aliens we might be able to communicate with, but it’s also a prime ...

Last week, EarthSky reported on the sun-like star ZTF SLRN-2020, which lies some 12,000 light-years away. And in its process of becoming a red giant star – a stage of stellar evolution that awaits our ...

(via SciShow) In 1961, the astronomer Frank Drake wrote down what is now known as the Drake Equation. It's so important to the culture surrounding the search for extraterrestrial life that scientists ...

In 1960, while preparing for the first meeting on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), legendary astronomer and SETI pioneer Dr. Frank Drake unveiled his probabilistic equation for ...

When Frank Drake penned his famous equation in 1961, he gave us a framework to estimate the number of detectable technological civilizations in our galaxy. Beginning with the number of potentially ...

The Drake equation is one of astronomy’s most famous attempts to answer the question: Are we alone? It asks not just about any life, but the top shelf stuff: intelligent life with the ability to ...

Are we alone in the Universe? This question has been pondered throughout human history. Only in the last century have we begun to systematically try to answer it. As we pointed more powerful ...