What if we are alone in the universe?

Stephen Webb

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Description

An Oxford study indicates that there is a 99.6% chance that humans are the only intelligent species in the galaxy and an 85% chance that they are so in the entire observable universe

Period	1 Jan 2017 → 28 Mar 2021

Media coverage

4

Media coverage

Title	What if we are alone in the universe?
Degree of recognition	International
Media name/outlet	El Pais
Media type	Web
Country/Territory	Spain
Date	28/03/21
Description	Complex multicellular life is only 600 million years old; us, just 100,000. "There are many factors that make intelligent life extremely rare to appear,"
Producer/Author	Luis Miguel Ariza
URL	https://elpais.com/eps/2021-03-28/y-si-estamos-solos.html
Persons	Stephen Webb

Title	Science or just fiction?
Degree of recognition	National
Media name/outlet	Discover Magazine
Media type	Print
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
Date	1/12/20
Description	Life beyond might not exist - or we just don't know how to find it
Producer/Author	Sarah Scoles
Persons	Stephen Webb

Title	How we'll find life in the universe
Degree of recognition	National
Media name/outlet	Astronomy
Media type	Print
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
Date	1/09/20
Description	Is there life out there? Researchers are pursuing three paths to find out.
Producer/Author	Robert Naeye
Persons	Stephen Webb

Title	Where is everybody?
Degree of recognition	National
Media name/outlet	Reader's Digest
Media type	Print
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
Date	1/02/18
Description	Some of the greatest human minds are scanning the universe, with a range of increasingly powerful telescopes, in the search for extraterrestrial life. The universe is unimaginably vast - how could we be the only ones?
Producer/Author	Amanda Riley-Jones
Persons	Stephen Webb

Media contributions

2

Media contributions

Title	The Pump of Curiosity
Media name/outlet	IMMagazine
Media type	Print
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
Date	1/06/20
Description	The Fermi paradox is one of the most puzzling problems in science. Could solar eclipses have anything to do with it? It took Enrico Fermi, a giant of 20th-century physics, just three words to brutally expose a troubling fact about the universe: where is everybody?
Producer/Author	Graham Jones
Persons	Stephen Webb

Title	Stephen Webb Seeks Answers
Degree of recognition	National
Media name/outlet	Tahdet ja avaruus
Media type	Print
Country/Territory	Finland
Date	1/01/17
Description	If there is life in the universe, why don't we hear anything about it?" This mystery has been considered by Stephen Webb for much of his career. New answers can still be found.
Persons	Stephen Webb