Life is a physicochemical process that begins to establish and evolve when it finds the environmental conditions that can maximize its development chances. Far from trying to explain what life is, a topic for biologists, philosophers, and theologians, the main reasons why the search for life is also an astrophysical problem will be introduced.
Morrison and Cocconi in 1959 in one of their articles describing one of the first projects for the search for life, said the famous phrase: “if we ever look for it, the chances of finding life are zero”. Generally, to look for anything with any chance of success, you have to answer three basic questions: Where? What? As? The answer to these questions is increasingly satisfactory every day thanks to the successes of astronomy and astrophysics in this field too.
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