American scientists Luis Ancordoki, Susanna Weber, Jorge Soriano showed that there is an alien civilization in the Milky Way that is capable of contacting earthlings.
Experts have modified the Drake equation, which is an equality, on the one hand of which is the product of seven factors, and on the other, the number of extraterrestrial civilizations.
Experts have shown that on a galactic scale, that is, within ten kiloparsecs from the Sun, which is comparable to the radius of the Milky Way's disk, there is at least one extraterrestrial civilization, which has at its disposal the means available for communication with the Earth.
In the approach of scientists, the number of planets with civilizations capable of contact turns out to be related to the rate of birth of celestial bodies located within the habitable zone around the mother star. The existence of life, in turn, can be threatened by powerful gamma-ray bursts.
Experts believe that the upcoming space observatories TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) and JWST (James Webb Space Telescope) will verify the findings of the work.