Publisher's Synopsis
Does intelligent life exist beyond our planet? In the run up to the Millennium this is the big question that everyone wants answered. Today life on Mars UFOs and extraterrestrials make headline news but scientists have been searching for alien life for the past 40 years. Signals have been beamed into deep space and messages carried on spacecraft in a bid to make contact with extraterrestrials. What is the likelihood of intelligent beings existing in other parts of the Universe and would we be able to recognise them? In this book best-selling science writers Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest take you on a gripping journey of discovery in thier search for extraterrestrial life. Along the way they describe waht alien life formas might look like and what could happen if we made contact. The result is an authoritative fascninating and up-to-date survey of our attempts to discover whether we are alone in the Universe. Is Anybody Out There? follows on from Black Holes and Big Bang to complete this stunning trilogy of mind-stretching books.