Frank Drake is a renowned astronomer whose principal ... which in retrospect was a big mistake. It shows a woman in the grocery store buying groceries, and she’s eating some grapes.

In June 2012, SETI Institute Board Member Andrew Fraknoi sat down with astrophysicist Frank Drake, father of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, for a fantastic 45-minute interview about ...

When Drake first formulated his equation, the only term known with any confidence was the rate of star formation — about 30 per year. Frank Drake in 2007. Michael Kovac/Getty Images ...

Frank Drake had a problem. It was the fall of 1961, a year after his pioneering SETI experiment: Project Ozma. Using an 85-foot antenna in Green Bank, West Virginia, Drake had unfurled the intriguing ...

The Drake Equation, named after its creator, radio astronomer Frank Drake, tackles a perplexing question: Does intelligent life, capable of communicating with us, exist beyond Earth? It makes the ...

By Dennis Overbye Frank Drake, who pointed a radio telescope at a pair of stars in 1960 hoping to find alien civilizations and thus kindled a continuing endeavor called the Search for ...

I write today with sadness to share news of the passing of Frank Drake, UC Santa Cruz professor emeritus of astronomy and astrophysics and an eminent radio astronomer. Drake was known for pioneering ...

Drake held an M.S. and Ph.D. in Astronomy from Harvard University, and a B.A. in Engineering Physics, Cornell University Frank passed away in 2022. Watch an interview with Frank Drake at SETICon Frank ...