How many intelligent civilizations should there be in our galaxy right now? In 1961, the US astrophysicist Frank Drake, who passed away on Sept. 2 at the age of 92, came up with an equation to ...

This places Drake in the company of towering physicists with equations named after them, including James Clerk Maxwell and Erwin Schrödinger. Unlike those, Drake’s equation does not encapsulate a law ...

Frank Drake is best known for developing the (aptly named) Drake equation, which is a mathematical equation that was developed to estimate the number of detectable alien civilizations residing in the ...

Throughout the ages, many have wondered whether intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe. More recently, SETI scientists have wondered whether we might be able to detect signals from their ...

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Astronomer Frank Drake formulated his influential equation in 1961 to estimate the number of civilizations in the Milky Way capable of communicating with us. Our understanding of planetary science has ...

Throughout the ages, many have wondered whether intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe. More recently, SETI scientists have wondered whether we might be able to detect signals from their ...