Is there any life out there? -- The Solar System -- The nature of life on Earth -- The origin of life on Earth -- The evolution of life on Earth -- Extraterrestrial life in the Solar System? -- Habitats beyond the Solar System? -- Searching for exoplanets by obtaining images -- Searching for exoplanets by stellar photometry -- Searching for exoplanets by detecting the motion of their stars -- The known exoplanetary systems -- The undiscovered exoplanetary systems -- Finding life on exoplanets -- The search for extraterrestrial intelligence -- What might the aliens be like?
Summary
At present we have evidence only of life on Earth. New instruments and techniques are being developed not only to detect exoplanetary systems but that are also capable of analyzing the environments on discovered exoplanets to tell us whether a plan is habitable, and even inhabited
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-267) and index
