- Chapter 1 starts by looking at the origin of life on earth. What it needs in terms of components, how it might have started and the clues left behind both fossil and molecular.
- Chapter 2 looks at environments for life, and considers the habitable zone around the sun.
- Chapter 3 is all about Mars, and the various attempts to find life there, including the notorious Martian meteorite.
- Chapter 4 looks at the possibility of life on icy moons such as Europa and other places.
- Chapter 5 is devoted to the moon Titan.
- Chapter 6 is about exoplanets, those planets orbiting other stars and mostly about how they are detected.
- Chapter 7 looks at exoplanets as possible habitats for life, and some of their properties that may aid or otherwise life development.
- Chapter 8 looks at the potential to detect life on exoplanets from Earth, and the technology required for that to take place.
- Chapter 9 considers SETI and CETI, interaction with extraterrestrial civilisations and how we haven't had any, and why that might be.
Whilst I found the first few chapters interesting, and the exoplanet chapters happened to coincide with a IYA lecture locally that was excellent, I found the book rather seemed to fizzle out at the end., or maybe it was me that fizzled out.
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