2025-02-20 15:07:00

It is “only a matter of time” before alien life forms – if it hasn’t already.

Astronomers have long believed that ‘hard steps’ must be met in the 10 billion-year lifespan of a star for life to be established but a new study suggests that intelligent species such as humans are the result of a predictable geological process.

Dan Mills, a researcher at the University of Munich and co-author of the study, said: “We’re arguing that intelligent life may not require a series of lucky breaks to exist.

“Humans didn’t evolve ‘early’ or ‘late’ in Earth’s history but ‘on time’, when the conditions were in place. Perhaps it’s only a matter of time, and maybe other planets are able to achieve these conditions more rapidly than Earth did, while other planets might take even longer.”

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