When Renaissance scholars figured out that the other planets, like Earth, orbit the Sun, an immediate assumption was that they are inhabited worlds. But over the past 50 years, spacecraft have determined that life on the surfaces of planets and moons in the Solar System is rare – if it exists at all. However, there are places where a search for...
Written by Mike Maharry, Academy Village Volunteer Are We Alone in the Universe? That question rises above all others when it comes to our place in a vast and ancient Universe. With a billion habitable locations in the Milky Way galaxy alone, and more than 10 billion years for biological experiments to play out, a search for intelligent life...
