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What if we are alone in the universe?

  • Stephen Webb

Press/Media: Expert comment

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

Period1 Jan 2017 → 28 Mar 2021

Media coverage

4

Media coverage

  • TitleWhat if we are alone in the universe?
    Degree of recognitionInternational
    Media name/outletEl Pais
    Media typeWeb
    Country/TerritorySpain
    Date28/03/21
    DescriptionComplex 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/AuthorLuis Miguel Ariza
    URLhttps://elpais.com/eps/2021-03-28/y-si-estamos-solos.html
    PersonsStephen Webb
  • TitleScience or just fiction?
    Degree of recognitionNational
    Media name/outletDiscover Magazine
    Media typePrint
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date1/12/20
    DescriptionLife beyond might not exist - or we just don't know how to find it
    Producer/AuthorSarah Scoles
    PersonsStephen Webb
  • TitleHow we'll find life in the universe
    Degree of recognitionNational
    Media name/outletAstronomy
    Media typePrint
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date1/09/20
    DescriptionIs there life out there? Researchers are pursuing three paths to find out.
    Producer/AuthorRobert Naeye
    PersonsStephen Webb
  • TitleWhere is everybody?
    Degree of recognitionNational
    Media name/outletReader's Digest
    Media typePrint
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date1/02/18
    DescriptionSome 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/AuthorAmanda Riley-Jones
    PersonsStephen Webb

Media contributions

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Media contributions

  • TitleThe Pump of Curiosity
    Media name/outletIMMagazine
    Media typePrint
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date1/06/20
    DescriptionThe 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/AuthorGraham Jones
    PersonsStephen Webb
  • TitleStephen Webb Seeks Answers
    Degree of recognitionNational
    Media name/outletTahdet ja avaruus
    Media typePrint
    Country/TerritoryFinland
    Date1/01/17
    DescriptionIf 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.
    PersonsStephen Webb