BARELY a month goes by lately with out the detection of a tantalising “sign of life” in an alien environment. With the James Webb Space Telescope’s unmatched means to probe the chemistry of distant worlds – and so many promising exoplanets to set our sights on – at present’s astronomers are more and more assured that their technology would be the one to find life past Earth.
That could be a thrilling risk, little doubt. However with it comes nice duty. Given the magnitude of the query of whether or not life exists elsewhere within the universe, and the general public curiosity that goes with it, we have to be…
