A new theoretical model based on the famous Drake equation suggests that alien life is more likely to emerge in specific parallel universes that could potentially exist alongside ours in a never ...

If there are a million, we’d discover alien life by 2028. Nobody pretends the Drake Equation is the final word. Even its enthusiasts admit that it is, at best, a way to “organize our ignorance.” ...

What the seven variables are and what they mean The first letter of the Drake equation, on the far left, is "N." It represents the number of intelligent alien races within the Milky Way that could ...

In 1960, radio astronomer Frank D. Drake, then at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Green Bank, West Virginia, carried out humanity's first modern attempt to detect interstellar radio ...