Overview
Introduction
To Life! Here, There, Everywhere
by Ricki Rusting
Section 1: Origin of Life on Earth
1.1 In the Beginning…
by John Horgan
1.2 Life’s Rocky Start
by Robert M. Hazen
1.3 Origin of Life on Earth
by Alonso Ricardo and Jack W. Szostak
1.4 Expanding the Limits of Life
by Alexander S. Bradley
1.5 Life Springs
by Martin J. Van Kranendonk, David W. Deamer and Tara Djokic
1.6 Did Life Come from Another World?
by David Warmflash and Benjamin Weiss
1.7 Are Aliens among Us?
by Paul Davies
Section 2: Where Life Lurks
2.1 How to Search for Life on Mars
by Christopher P. McKay and Victor Parro García
2.2 Time to Go to Europa
by Van R. Kane
2.3 Under the Sea of Enceladus
by Frank Postberg, Gabriel Tobie and Thorsten Dambeck
2.4 The Mystery of Methane on Mars & Titan
by Sushil K. Atreya
2.5 The Dawn of Distant Skies
by Michael D. Lemonick
2.6 Better Than Earth
by René Heller
2.7 The Search of Life on Faraway Moons
by Lee Billings
2.8 The Color of Plants on Other Worlds
by Nancy Y. Kiang
2.9 Looking for Life in the Multiverse
by Alejandro Jenkins and Gilad Perez
Section 3: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
3.1 Is There Life Elsewhere in the Universe?
by Jill Tarter and Christopher F. Chyba
3.2 Contact: The Day After
by Tim Folger
3.3 Where Are They?
by Ian Crawford
3.4 Circle of Life
by Ken Croswell
3.5 Strange News from Another Star
by Kimberly Cartier and Jason T. Wright
Section 4: Life’s Future
4.1 Lonely but Never Alone
by Anna von Hopffgarten
4.2 Starship Humanity
by Cameron M. Smith
4.3 The Fate of Life in the Universe
by Lawrence M. Krauss and Glenn D. Starkman