#  Could Alien Life Spread 'Like a Virus' to the Stars? 

 





August 31, 2015

 

 

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"As astronomical techniques become more advanced, a team of astrophysicists think they will be able to not only detect the signatures of alien life in exoplanetary atmospheres, but also track its relentless spread throughout the galaxy.[The research](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2015-18), headed by Henry Lin of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), assumes that this feat may be possible in a generation or so and that the hypothesis of panspermia may act as the delivery system for alien biology to hop from one star system to another."

Read More:<http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-exoplanets/could-alien-life-spread-like-a-virus-to-the-stars-150827.htm><http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/life-may-have-spread-through-galaxy-plague-180956425/?no-ist>Original paper (just published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters):<http://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.05614.pdf>



 

 

 



 

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