FROM THE EDITOR
COVER: BEN GILES THIS PAGE: PAUL CARTER, MARK THIESSEN
Is there life elsewhere in the Universe? If you asked me, I’d say: we don’t know, but I’d be astonished if there wasn’t. If you look at the deep-field images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, it’s hard to think anything else. Those images capture a portion of the sky smaller than a grain of sand held at arm’s length, and yet in them you can see thousands of galaxies.
Within each of the galaxies will be billions of stars. In the face of those odds, it just feels implausible – or maybe just sad – to think that our little rock is the only one where life found a way.