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The expansiveness of the universe could make interstellar communication difficult, even for the most advanced civilizations.

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Even with modest assumptions, the Drake Equation often suggests the galaxy should be chock full of extraterrestrial neighbors ...

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Astronomers made headlines last week by suggesting potential signs of life on the distant exoplanet K2-18b—but is this truly our first glimpse of extraterrestrial beings, or simply wishful thinking?

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It seems unlikely that, in a universe so vast, we're the only intelligent life that exists. Although we can fashion several hypotheses that might explain our apparent solitude, the most popular ...

As ancient and vast as the Universe is, it seems like some alien race arose in the galaxy long before us, but who rose before ...