Africa: Five Important Things to Know About the Search for Aliens

With the recent discovery of an earth-like planet, Kepler 452b, about 1 400 light years away, the recent pictures of Pluto, and the return of the Star Wars movies, the debate around space and the existence of extra-terrestrials is intensifying.

While the search for aliens continues through organisations such as Seti (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence), most of the public gets their information on aliens from Hollywood and science-fiction novels.

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