“Could There be Life in the Universe Far Older Than Ours?” —Planetary Building Blocks After Big Bang Suggest: “Yes”
The raw materials for building terrestrial planets were available very soon after the Big Bang, raising the possibility that there could be life in the Universe far older than we. Perhaps they reside around long-lived red dwarf stars, or have moved on from their home system after their star expired. Or, perhaps, we really are the first, which means that if life has happened just once throughout the entire history of the Universe, our existence must be a fluke and our planet very, very special indeed.
(via we-are-star-stuff)
