In 1938, Orson Welles, perhaps most famous for a sled named Rosebud, accidentally incited panic in radio listeners who tuned into his Halloween Eve retelling of H. G. Wells’ 1898 novel The War of the Worlds. While the number of people who reportedly went into hysteria after hearing the infamous broadcast has been greatly exaggerated over the years, it is true that some believed Grovers Mill, N.J., was under attack by Martian invaders bent on Earth domination.
This will most likely never happen. Not because this American classic is a fictional account, but because it is exceedingly unlikely for intelligent life to have developed anywhere near our solar system, let alone twice in the same system at around the same time. But what about unintelligent life?
In a constellation far, far away, ~120 light years, in fact, researchers may have found evidence of plant life on planet K2-18b using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Not only is this exciting for obvious reasons, but it may also lend credence to an astronomical theory that researchers should search beyond Earth-like planets for signs of life
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