From astrophysicist Adam Frank,a little book on the biggest questions in our search for extraterrestrial lifequestions we stand ready to answer. Everyone is curious about life in the UniverseUFOs and whether ET is out there. Over the course of his thirty-year career as an astrophysicistAdam Frank has consistently been asked about the possibility of intelligent life in the universe. Are aliens real? Where are they? Why haven’t we found them? What happens if we do? We’ve long been led to believe that astronomers spend every night searching the sky for extraterrestialsbut the truth is we have barely started looking. Not until now have we even known where to look or how. In The Little Book of AliensFranka leading researcher in the fieldtakes us on a journey to all that we know about the possibility of life outside planet Earth and shows us the cutting-edge science that has brought us to this unique moment in human history: the one where we go find out for ourselves. In this small book with big stakesFrank gives us a rundown of everything we need to knowfrom the scientific origins of the search for intelligent lifethe Fermi Paradoxthe Kardashev Scalethe James Webb Telescopeas well as UFOs and their conspiracy theories. Drawing from his own work and that of other scientists studying the possibility of alien lifehe brings together the latest scientific thinkingdataideasand discoveries to equip us with the critical facts as we stand at what may be the last moment in human history where we still believe we are all alone. This book is about everything we do–and do not–know about lifeintelligent or otherwise beyond Earth. In language that is engagingentertaining and funThe Little Book of Aliens provides a comprehensive first look at how close we are to finding out if others actually exist–and if they dowhat they might be like. Humankind is on the precipice of finding its neighbors. What comes next? No person is better suited to answer that question–and lead the search–than Adam Frank.