This famous formula gives us an idea. The Drake Equation, which was the agenda for a meeting of experts held in West Virginia in 1961, estimates N, the number of transmitting societies in the Milky ...

Related: The search for alien life Drake's equation may look complicated, but its principles are really rather simple. It states that, in a galaxy as old as ours, the number of civilizations that ...

Back in the 1960s, Frank Drake, an American astrophysicist and astrobiologist, proposed an equation aimed at estimating the number of intelligent civilizations in our Universe. The equation ...