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Inspired by her popular Wild Thing
podcast, journalist Laura Krantz incorporates the scientific method and
her journalistic skills to determine if aliens might exist.
How likely is it that humans aren’t alone in the universe?
Reports of strange lights, UFO sightings, and alien encounters
abound—and some (like recent accounts from US Navy pilots) even sound
credible. In recent years, armed with state-of-the-art technology and
better information, the search for extraterrestrials overflows with
exciting possibilities. Within our own solar system, astrobiologists
search for the biochemical building blocks that might sustain microbes,
astronomers discover far-flung stars, orbited by planets that could be
teeming with life, and astrophysicists point sophisticated telescopes
toward the deep reaches of the universe, looking for anything out of the
ordinary.
Is There Anybody Out There?
turns our collective gaze skyward: What’s the likelihood of life on
other planets? Or that aliens have already made the trip to visit us?
How would they get here? Why do we want to find them? And what does it
mean if we do (or don’t)? Teaching readers to challenge their gut
assumptions and open their minds to new possibilities by using critical
thinking and the scientific method, journalist Laura Krantz investigates
the science, culture, and philosophy of a universe in which we’re not
alone—and why the idea of alien life has abducted our imaginations.
Includes Color Illustrations and Features Photographs from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope