Life On Other Planets?

Part I of Essay
1 Life in outer space? A figment of our wildest imagination or reality? This age old question has been lingering in the heads of human minds since the beginning of reasonable thinking. Today, these questions still remain unanswered, although extensive research has been cond ....

Part II of Essay
.... of algae on many of Earth's deep sea thermal vents, as well as bacteria that lives beneath the Earth's icy polar tundra's in the arctic and Antarctic. George W. Wetherill even notes that “Even if a planet or moon could not support life globally, each could contain a tiny niche where life could thrive” (Science News, 328). What are the most favorable conditions for life to develop? It is now known that life simply cannot emerge anywhere that does not contain water. It is mostly preferred that this water exists in liquid form, but there ....