The University Of Arizona May Have Just Discovered Alien Life

Since my childhood, I've been looking to the stars, hoping that some day we'd find another form of life among the cosmos. While we've certainly gotten closer to discovering alien life, we've got nothing concrete yet.

The University of Arizona may have just changed the game.

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What is Titan?

Located just outside the rings of Saturn, Titan is the largest moon orbiting the gas giant. It's layout is alien to us, with a thick, hazy atmosphere, methane lakes, and massive dunes made of soot-like sand.

For years, scientists have theorized there may be life harbored there, but direct contact would be near impossible with modern tech. So, the University of Arizona put their heads together, and began to study if there truly could be life on the moon. But how?

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The Arizona Titan Project

Over the past few months, scientists with the University of Arizona Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology have put together a scenario where life could exist on Titan. It all starts with the moon's underground oceans, reaching up to 300 feet down. These oceans show signs of organic compounds that could support life forms.

Now, this would be nothing more than microscopic bacteria, amounting to just a few pounds overall across the moon, but it's still a promising development, showing that life can, in fact, exist off of our earth. If this is true, then there's no guarantee of what we could find among the stars, so it's time to look up and dream. You never know what's out there, but U of A does.

[University of Arizona]