Space Exploration Advances, Unanswered Question

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Is there life out there? The existence of other technological species is highly likely

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Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific evidence at a record pace.

Yet the age-old question remains unanswered: are we alone? New telescope technologies, including space-based tools such as the James Webb Telescope , have enabled us to discover thousands of potentially habitable exoplanets.

An imbalance in chirality observed in organic molecules could be an indicator that life on Earth originated from the delivery of organic molecules by extraterrestrial life.

This asymmetry in space-derived organic molecules is also observed in all biomolecules on Earth (proteins, sugars, amino acids, RNA and DNA) suggests it could have arisen from the slight imbalance delivered from space.

The probability of humanity being the sole technological civilization in the observable universe is considered to be less than one in 10 billion trillion .

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