By fitting together the pieces of Earth’s development, scientists are using revolutionary instrumentation to scan the universe to explore the possibility of past, present and potential future life elsewhere in our universe. Current extraordinary advances in telescope infrared technology provides increasingly detailed images of our universe. The question remains, is Earth the only place in the solar system where life exists?

Originally released by TMW Media Group, 2014. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on February 08, 2017.

Birth of our Solar System (2:07); --Birth of Life (2:32); -- Possibilities of Other Life Forms (2:08); -- Extraterrestrial Life (2:51); -- Credits: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life: Show Me Science (0:23);.