For thousands of years, humans have wondered whether we're alone in the cosmos. Now we have the technology to investigate. But once you look for life elsewhere, you realise it is not so simple. How do you find it over cosmic distances? What actually is life? As founding director of Cornell University's Carl Sagan Institute, astrophysicist Lisa Kaltenegger has built a team of tenacious scientists from many disciplines to create a specialised toolkit to find life on faraway worlds. In 'Alien Earths', she demonstrates how we can use our homeworld as a Rosetta Stone, creatively analysing Earth's history and its astonishing biosphere to inform this search.
| ISBN: | 9781250397164 |
| Publication date: | 12th January 2026 |
| Author: | Lisa Kaltenegger |
| Publisher: | St. Martin's Griffin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 288 pages |
| Genres: |
Solar system: the Sun and planets |
For thousands of years, humans have wondered whether we're alone in the cosmos. Now we have the technology to investigate. But once you look for life elsewhere, you realise it is not so simple. How do you find it over cosmic distances? What actually is life? As founding director of Cornell University's Carl Sagan Institute, astrophysicist Lisa Kaltenegger has built a team of tenacious scientists from many disciplines to create a specialised toolkit to find life on faraway worlds. In 'Alien Earths', she demonstrates how we can use our homeworld as a Rosetta Stone, creatively analysing Earth's history and its astonishing biosphere to inform this search.
Alien Earths features in the following genres: Solar system: the Sun and planets
Alien Earths is available in Paperback, Hardback
Alien Earths was written by Lisa Kaltenegger and published by St. Martin's Griffin
Alien Earths has 288 pages
£16.19