The Fermi Paradox Explained: Where Is Everybody?
A clear, 2026 guide to the Fermi paradox: what it is, why the universe's silence is so strange, and the leading theories for where all the aliens are.
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The science of life beyond Earth: the Fermi paradox, the Drake equation, habitable worlds, and the big question of whether we are alone in the universe.