Alien life bombshell: ‘Intelligent life could well be out there’

“You have a very good reason to expect complex animal life from another planet which have an eye designed similar to ours, because it works in terms of physics and engineering.”

Intelligent life almost certainly does not exist in the solar system outside of Earth.

However, the most basic forms of life could survive on “Mars or maybe the moons of Jupiter”, Dr Dartnell claims.

He said: “We are considering extremophile bacteria like life – hardy micro-organisms, hardy single-celled life.

“But possibly on a more Earth-like planet orbiting another star in our galaxy, there might be a possibility for life to become more complex, the evolution has the opportunity to progress beyond single-celled life.

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