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At its core, the Fermi Paradox grapples with a puzzling contradiction: Considering the enormous size of the universe and the frequent discovery of potentially habitable planets, why haven't we heard from any extraterrestrial civilizations yet?
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Despite our advancing technologies for astronomical observation and the ongoing search for extraterrestrial intelligence, we have yet to find concrete evidence of life beyond Earth.
![A dense cluster of bright stars, each with six large and two small diffraction spikes, due to the telescope’s optics. They have a variety of sizes depending on their brightness and distance from us in the cluster, and different colours reflecting different types of star. Patches of billowing red gas can be seen in and around the cluster, lit up by the stars. Small stars in the cluster blend into a background of distant stars and galaxies on black.]](https://assets.iflscience.com/assets/articleNo/77446/aImg/81193/glittering-m.jpg)
