The Fermi Paradox, named after physicist Enrico Fermi, highlights a contradiction in our understanding of alien life: despite ...

"Where is everybody?" Enrico Fermi asked fellow famous physicists including Edward Teller over lunch in 1950. This quandary was named Fermi's paradox. "It's a numbers game," Jason Wright ...

In 1945, as the first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert, Enrico Fermi stood miles away, holding a few scraps of ...

Enrico Fermi, Italian-American physicist, received the 1938 Nobel Prize in physics for identifying new elements and discovering nuclear reactions by his method of nuclear irradiation and bombardment.

Is there some evidence suggesting that humans are the Galaxy’s only intelligent species? Enrico Fermi thought so – and he was a pretty smart guy. Could he be right? In 1950, the famous physicist made ...

Enrico Fermi (; 29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian physicist, best known for his work on Chicago Pile-1 (the first nuclear reactor), and for his contributions to the ...

Photo by Bortzells Esselte, courtesy AIP Emilio Segre Visual Archives. Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) left Italy in 1938 to receive the Nobel Prize for physics in Sweden. He never went back. He and his ...

A scientific breakthrough with profound implications For millennia, humans have searched the skies—sometimes with wonder, ...

U.S. nuclear power plants have two Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspectors stationed right on site. Who is at Fermi 2? What do they do?

“Where is everybody?” Enrico Fermi asked fellow famous physicists including Edward Teller over lunch in 1950. This quandary was named Fermi’s Paradox. “It’s a numbers game,” Jason ...