• Question: Have you found any living things on other planets?

    Asked by 228brna42 to Eoin on 19 Nov 2014.
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      Eoin Carley answered on 19 Nov 2014:


      Hello!
      No, no other living thing has ever been found outside Earth. However! We do know that building blocks of life exist throughout our galaxy. We have detected big complex life-giving molecules made of Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen and many other metals (just like ones that you and I are made of). We’ve even detected amino acids in outer space, which are one step away from the proteins of life! I am confident that someday we will detect life somewhere else other than Earth.

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