"Features interviews with scientists who share their opinions about the possibility of life beyond Earth and examines the latest developments in astrobiology"--Container.

Travel with a visionary new science on a search for life in space, combining the disciplines of atronomy, biology and geology; Explore a bizarre array of technologies proposed by scientists in the hope of traveling faster through space, from spacecraft sporting sails to propulsion engines powered by anti-matter; Experts explain the latest developments in the ultimate space mission - to establish a space colony on Mars; When mankind eventually leaves...

"Light of the Stars tells the story of humanity's coming of age as we awaken to the possibilities of life on other worlds and their sudden relevance to our fate on Earth. Astrophysicist Adam Frank traces the question of alien life and intelligence from the ancient Greeks to the leading thinkers of our own time, and shows how we as a civilization can only hope to survive climate change if we recognize what science has recently discovered: that we are...

"Any reader of science fiction or viewer of Star Trek will be awake to the dream that there may be life elsewhere in our universe that isn't like life here on Earth. Maybe, like E.T., it has new letters in its genetic alphabet! Maybe it's made of silicon! Maybe it gets around on wheels! Or maybe it doesn't. In The Equations of Life, biologist Charles Cockell makes the surprising argument that the Universe constrains life, making its evolutionary outcomes...