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A New Recipe For Hunting Alien Life


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Temperate zone for planets

An artist's rendition of the temperate, Earth-size worlds of TRAPPIST-1, a red dwarf star nearly 40 light years from Earth. Such planets are high-priority targets in the search for life elsewhere in the universe.

Credit:NASA/JPL-Caltech

Imagine stepping into a time machine, one that could traverse not only billions of years but also countless light years of space, all in search of life in the universe.

From Scientific American
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