Is there anybody out there?

This question was posed in an article by Rebecca Boyle. She described the galaxy as ‘teeming with life and I agree. Because what if there is life, beings and species unknown to us? Have we come into contact with said beings? Possibly, yes. Or is our planet like that one person in a friend group, left out of the joke, stuck wondering: what are they talking about? Perhaps this is where our curiosity and anxiety stems from. Our desire to know what lies beyond the one thing we’ve always seen but never experienced: space. It’s name is it’s very description. And it’s such a phenomenon that there’s an entire study about it. o, it’s not spaceology. Astronomy is the study of everything in the universe beyond Earth’s atmosphere— the definition given by he American Museum of Natural History. Astrobiology, however, is the study of the origin, evolution and distribution of life in the universe. Also known to children as ‘Alienology’.

Referring back to Rebecca Boyle’s article, do we really want to know if aliens are out there? Our very way of life will be altered just by knowing about any form of extra-terrestrial life. In...