Ever wonder why, if our galaxy is so large, we’ve never openly been contacted by aliens? Anomaly Games’ The Fermi Paradox, a narrative strategy game that recently hit Steam Early Access, revolves ...

Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got stranded on earth when his alien compadres abandoned their botany mission. In ...

The Fermi paradox asks a simple question with no easy answer: if the galaxy contains hundreds of billions of stars, many with planets, why has no other civilization made contact? One line of research ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Developer Anomaly Games has revealed a new trailer for The Fermi ...

Our search for extraterrestrial life has turned up empty, perhaps because technologically advanced civilizations are doomed to fail. An astrophysicist has proposed an intriguing explanation for why ...

The big-idea explorers at Aperture dive into the Fermi Paradox to investigate why we haven't found any evidence of alien life in our vast universe.

A pair of researchers, one with the Carnegie Institution for Science, the other with California Institute of Technology, has developed a possible solution to the Fermi Paradox. In their paper ...

There are tens of billions of galaxies in the universe, each with tens of billions of stars. Many stars have planets, and a healthy fraction of those are rocky and can sustain liquid water on their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the summer of 1950, four men sat down for lunch together at Los Alamos. It was, at the time, the center of American physics, ...

"Where is everybody?": This question, about the lack of aliens in the vast universe, is called Fermi's paradox - Copyright NASA/AFP/File HO "Where is everybody ...