Why the idea of alien life now seems inevitable and possibly imminent
- Written by Cathal D. O'Connell, Researcher and Centre Manager, BioFab3D (St Vincent's Hospital), University of Melbourne
Relative sizes of planets that are in a zone potentially compatible with life: Kepler-22b, Kepler-69c, Kepler-62e, Kepler-62f and Earth (named left to right; except for Earth, these are artists' renditions).NASA, CC BY
This article is an edited extract from an essay, The search for ET, in The New Disruptors, the 64th edition of Griffith Review.
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