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grid-container grid-row grid-container-block padding-x-3 desktop:padding-0"><div class="desktop:grid-col-3 tablet-lg:padding-left-3 desktop:padding-left-0 desktop:padding-right-5 padding-left-0 padding-top-3"><div class="padding-y-2 usa-article-scroll-wrapper"> <div class="usa-article__scroll"> <div class="border-left-1px border-color-carbon-20-important padding-left-3 padding-y-1"> <h2 class="margin-0 padding-0 text-uppercase heading-18">Contents</h2> </div> <ul class="usa-list usa-list__article-content usa-list--unstyled"> <li class="border-left-1px border-color-carbon-20-important padding-y-1 padding-left-3"> <a href="#h-the-search-for-life-beyond-earth-is-really-just-getting-started-but-science-has-an-encouraging-early-answer-there-are-plenty-of-planets-in-the-galaxy-many-with-similarities-to-our-own-but-what-we-don-t-know-fills-volumes" data-section-id="h-the-search-for-life-beyond-earth-is-really-just-getting-started-but-science-has-an-encouraging-early-answer-there-are-plenty-of-planets-in-the-galaxy-many-with-similarities-to-our-own-but-what-we-don-t-know-fills-volumes">Just Getting Started</a> </li> <li class="border-left-1px border-color-carbon-20-important padding-y-1 padding-left-3"> <a href="#h-more-questions-than-answers" data-section-id="h-more-questions-than-answers">More Questions than Answers</a> </li> <li class="border-left-1px border-color-carbon-20-important padding-y-1 padding-left-3"> <a href="#h-where-is-everybody" data-section-id="h-where-is-everybody">Where Is Everybody?</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div><div class="toc-main-content-2-column-section desktop:grid-col-9 desktop:padding-right-3 desktop:padding-left-5 padding-top-3"> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-the-search-for-life-beyond-earth-is-really-just-getting-started-but-science-has-an-encouraging-early-answer-there-are-plenty-of-planets-in-the-galaxy-many-with-similarities-to-our-own-but-what-we-don-t-know-fills-volumes">Just Getting Started</h2> <p><strong>The search for life beyond Earth is really just getting started, but science has an encouraging early answer: there are plenty of planets in the galaxy, many with similarities to our own. But what we don’t know fills volumes.</strong></p> <p>Observations from the ground and from space have confirmed <a href="https://science.nasa.gov/exoplanets/discoveries-dashboard/">thousands of planets beyond our solar system</a>. Our galaxy likely holds at least 100 billion. But so far, we have no evidence of life beyond Earth. Is life in the cosmos easily begun, and commonplace? Or <a href="https://science.nasa.gov/universe/exoplanets/is-earth-an-oddball/">is it incredibly rare?</a></p> <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> <iframe title="Our Milky Way Galaxy: How Big is Space?" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MX3PIkbTQwQ?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">How big is the Milky Way galaxy? Make the jump to light-years as we cruise through our galaxy. Video<br><strong>NASA/JPL-Caltech</strong></figcaption></figure> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-more-questions-than-answers">More Questions than Answers</h2> <p>In the thousands of years humanity has been contemplating the cosmos, we are the first people to know one thing for sure: <a href="https://science.nasa.gov/universe/exoplanets/what-in-the-world-is-an-exoplanet/">The stars beyond our Sun are teeming with planets</a>. They come in many varieties, and a good chunk of them are <a href="https://science.nasa.gov/universe/exoplanets/rocky-habitable-sizing-up-a-galaxy-of-planets/">around the size of Earth</a>. Like most scientific questions, though, getting an answer to this one just breeds more questions: Which, if any, of these exoplanets harbors some form of life? How quickly does life get its start? And how long does it last?</p> <div id="" class="hds-media hds-module wp-block-image"><div class="margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline"><div class="hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto"><figure class="hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-fit "><a href="https://assets.science.nasa.gov/dynamicimage/assets/science/astro/exo-explore/internal_resources/1770/Trappist-1_Planets_shown_in_a_row_next_to_their_star.jpeg?w=1600&h=900&fit=clip&crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint"><img width="1600" height="900" src="https://assets.science.nasa.gov/dynamicimage/assets/science/astro/exo-explore/internal_resources/1770/Trappist-1_Planets_shown_in_a_row_next_to_their_star.jpeg?w=1600&h=900&fit=clip&crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint" class="attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048" alt="" style="transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;" block_context="nasa-block" loading="lazy" decoding="async" /></a></figure><figcaption class="hds-caption padding-y-2"><div class="hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0">This artist's concept allows us to imagine what it would be like to stand on the surface of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1f, located in the TRAPPIST-1 system in the constellation Aquarius, as of Feb 2017.</div></figcaption></div></div></div> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-where-is-everybody">Where Is Everybody?</h2> <p>The universe's eerie silence has its own name – the <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-is-taking-a-new-look-at-searching-for-life-beyond-earth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"Fermi paradox."</a> Physicist Enrico Fermi famously posed the question: "Where is everybody?" Even at slow travel speeds, the universe's billions of years of existence allow plenty of time for intelligent, technological lifeforms to traverse the galaxy. Why, then, is the cosmos so quiet?</p> <p>Meanwhile, exoplanet discoveries over the past two decades have filled in a few of the terms in the much-debated <a href="https://science.nasa.gov/universe/exoplanets/are-we-alone-in-the-universe-revisiting-the-drake-equation/">Drake Equation</a> – a chain of numbers that might one day tell us how many intelligent civilizations we can expect to find. Most of its terms remain blank – the fraction of planets with life, with intelligent life, with detectable technology – but the equation itself suggests we might one day arrive at an answer. It feels at least a little more hopeful than Fermi's silence.</p> <p>We stand at a crossroads in the search for life. We've found thousands of planets in our Milky Way galaxy, a large fraction of them in Earth's size range and orbiting in their stars' "habitable zones" – the distance from the star at which liquid water <i>could</i> exist on the surface. We know the galaxy likely holds trillions of planets. Our telescopes in space and on the ground, and our remote-sensing technology, grow ever more powerful. Yet so far, the only life we know of is right here at home. For the moment, we're staring into the void, hoping someone is staring back.</p> <div id="" class="hds-media hds-module wp-block-image"><div class="margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline"><div class="hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto"><figure class="hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-fit "><a href="https://assets.science.nasa.gov/dynamicimage/assets/science/astro/exo-explore/internal_resources/1771/Drake_equation_illustration.jpeg?w=1280&h=638&fit=clip&crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint"><img width="1280" height="638" src="https://assets.science.nasa.gov/dynamicimage/assets/science/astro/exo-explore/internal_resources/1771/Drake_equation_illustration.jpeg?w=1280&h=638&fit=clip&crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint" class="attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048" alt="Drake equation illustration" style="transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;" block_context="nasa-block" loading="lazy" decoding="async" /></a></figure><figcaption class="hds-caption padding-y-2"><div class="hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0">Revised Drake equation.</div><div class="hds-credits">University of Rochester</div></figcaption></div></div></div> <p><b>Next: We don't have a universally accepted definition of life itself, <a href="https://science.nasa.gov/exoplanets/can-we-find-life/">so can we find life?</a></b></p> </div></div></div><div id="" class="hds-topic-cards nasa-gb-align-full maxw-full width-full padding-y-6 padding-x-3 color-mode-dark hds-module hds-module-full wp-block-nasa-blocks-topic-cards"> <div class="grid-container grid-container-block-lg padding-x-0"> <div class="grid-row flex-align-center margin-bottom-3"> <div class="desktop:grid-col-8 margin-bottom-2 desktop:margin-bottom-0"> <div class="label color-carbon-60 margin-bottom-2">Keep Exploring</div> <h2 class="heading-36 line-height-sm">Discover More Topics From NASA</h2> </div> </div> <div class="grid-row grid-gap-2 hds-topic-cards-wrapper"> <a 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bg-carbon-black"> <div class="skrim-overlay skrim-overlay-dark skrim-left mobile-skrim-top padding-3 display-flex flex-align-end flex-justify-start z-200"> <div> <p class="hds-topic-card-heading heading-29 color-spacesuit-white line-height-sm margin-top-0 margin-bottom-1"> <span>Universe</span> <svg viewBox="0 0 32 32" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><circle class="color-nasa-red" cx="16" cy="16" r="16"></circle><path d="M8 16.956h12.604l-3.844 4.106 1.252 1.338L24 16l-5.988-6.4-1.252 1.338 3.844 4.106H8v1.912z" class="color-spacesuit-white"></path></svg> </p> </div> </div> <figure class="hds-media-background "><img width="1536" height="1514" src="https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/ngc5068-1-flat-final.jpg?w=1536" class="attachment-1536x1536 size-1536x1536" alt="" style="transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;" block_context="nasa-block" loading="lazy" decoding="async" 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