Category: Life in the Universe

Astrobiology is the perfect interdisciplinary name for the crossroads of sciences that collectively study life with a cosmic perspective. How did life arise and evolve on our planet? Does life co-evolve on Earth? Is there life elsewhere in the universe? Continue Reading …

One of the most intriguing questions in searching for life in the universe is the one asked by physicist Enrico Fermi in 1952. During a lunch break, Fermi reasoned our solar system is only a third of the universe’s age, Continue Reading …

It was 1961 at the Green Bank radio telescope. Frank Drake, a young researcher at the observatory, was looking at a blank sheet to figure out a meeting agenda for America’s foremost thinkers on the question: Are we alone in Continue Reading …