There may never have been another intelligent, technologically advanced alien species in the entire history of the Universe.

Even the discovery of a single extraterrestrial civilization would be enough to upend humanity’s perceived place in the universe.

The search for extraterrestrial life uses radio signals, telescopes, and rovers. The Fermi Paradox questions why we haven't detected alien civilizations. The Drake Equation estimates the number of ...

Over time, an advanced civilization could use this technique to gather stars as a source of energy and thereby keep them inside the cosmic horizon as the universe expands.

Astronomers who tweaked the Drake equation suggest that humans may not be the first intelligent civilization in the universe. What did their analysis show?

Dan Hooper(Submitted on 13 Jun 2018) The presence of dark energy in our universe is causing space to expand at an accelerating rate. As a result, over the next approximately […] ...

It means that super-advanced civilizations in our local universe are extremely rare, or absent altogether. The rest of this article is behind a paywall.

Nearby galaxies in our universe show no signs of advanced alien civilizations — at least for now. A new study that examined the most promising galaxies we can see out of a collection of 100,000 ...

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Musk argues that the chances humanity is the only advanced civilization is a reason we must leave this planet for the stars.