The Aliens Are Coming!: The Extraordinary Science Behind Our Search for Life in the Universe

The actor and author "celebrates the human fascination with the search for extraterrestrial life and grounds it with equally fascinating science" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

For millennia, we have looked up at the stars and wondered whether we are alone in the universe, but in the last few years—as our probes begin to escape the solar system, and our telescopes reveal thousands of Earthlike planets—scientists have taken huge leaps toward an answer. "Forget science fiction," author ...