Life Are we alone? Part 1
Life Are we alone? Science has a promising early solution: there are many planets in the cosmos, many of which have parallels to our own. The quest for life beyond Earth is really only just getting begun. However, there is a great deal that is unknown. Thousands more planets outside of our solar system have been confirmed by ground and space-based observations. There are probably trillions in our galaxy. However, scientists have not yet found any proof of life outside of Earth. Is it simple and common to start life in the cosmos? Or is it exceedingly uncommon? Questions outnumber solutions. We are the only species to have discovered one fact about the universe in the thousands of years that humanity has been contemplating it: planets are abundant in the stars beyond our Sun. They exist in a wide range of shapes and sizes, with the majority being roughly the size of Earth. However, finding an answer to this question only leads to new inquiries, as is the case with most sci...