As our technology becomes more advanced, and we become smarter, and star-gazers begin to ask the right questions, more earth-like planets are being discovered. With these discoveries come the possibilities of other life forms, and uncovering the answer to Enrico Fermi’s question: Where is everyone? Newly discovered exoplanets—like Proxima b and the seven Trappist-1 planets—have teased us with […]
The Spitzer Space Telescope located seven new Earth-sized planets, NASA announced February 22, 2017. It is the first known system of its size to orbit a single star. Three of the planets are located in the habitable zone—the area around the parent star where we might find planets with liquid water. Water could mean life. With this discovery, a revisit […]
The opening scene in the 2012 science fiction horror film Prometheus displays a visually elegant portrayal of a humanoid alien who generates a biogentic reaction with his DNA. With this reaction, life on earth begins. Director Ridley Scott’s said his film was, in part, influenced by Erich von Däniken’s 1968 book, Chariots of the Gods? Däniken’s book proposes that […]
