While it would be very exciting to find actual microbial life on one or more extraterrestrial worlds, it would be a far cry from finding intelligent life. Even so, such a microbial discovery would still greatly open up the possibility of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. Could there indeed be intelligent life out there? My personal belief is that there is intelligent life all over the universe. The nearest other intelligent life could be over 100 million light years away.

Source: CNN April 16, 2017 15:33 UTC