- Scientists from 4 leading universities launch initiative to investigate Earth's origins & look for extraterrestrial life.
- More than 5,000 exoplanets have been identified & billions more believed to exist in Milky Way.
- Search for extraterrestrial life will be supercharged by missions to Mars & Jupiter's moons & observatories like James Webb telescope.
- Evolutionary biologist Emily Mitchell believes simple life will be widespread across our galaxy.
- Astrobiologist Heather Graham believes life detection announcement unlikely to be from single piece of data.
Scientists launch new initiative to look for extraterrestrial life
Astrobiologists believe simple organisms pervade the universe but advanced civilisations are extremely rare
Clive Cookson
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