Astronomer Frank Drake formulated his influential equation in 1961 to estimate the number of civilizations in the Milky Way capable of communicating with us. Our understanding of planetary science has ...

(via SciShow) In 1961, the astronomer Frank Drake wrote down what is now known as the Drake Equation. It's so important to the culture surrounding the search for extraterrestrial life that scientists ...

There are few ideas in science that capture the imagination quite like the search for extraterrestrial life. From Mars ...

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Pioneer remembered: Frank Drake, who died in 2022 aged 92, helped establish SETI as a respected scientific discipline. Groundbreaking projects: He led Project Ozma, created the Drake equation, and ...