Across
- 4. someone who studies the physics of space
- 6. a spacecraft orbiting a planet
- 7. the universe is ______________ of years old
- 10. a 1979 film starring Sigourney Weaver
- 13. someone not from Earth
- 16. a way of relating space and time
- 19. how the universe began
- 21. a huge collection of gas, dust, and billions of stars and their solar systems, all held together by gravity
- 22. someone from Mars, may or may not be named Marvin
- 24. unidentified flying object
- 25. a disk-shaped UFO is called a flying _______
- 26. a town in New Mexico infamous for alleged alien activity
- 27. concept that proposes a barrier to the development of life that makes it unlikely to find extraterrestrial civilizations
- 28. a hypothetical structure that connects distant points in spacetime
- 31. the magnetic field surrounding and protecting Earth
Down
- 1. the mathematical formula for the probability of finding life
- 2. the gases that shield and protect Earth
- 3. the book "War of the _____________" was broadcast on the radio and made Americans think aliens were attacking
- 5. a human exploring space
- 8. a ship...for going into space
- 9. the contradiction between the high likelihood for extraterrestrial intelligence and the lack of evidence for it
- 11. a planet outside of our solar system
- 12. the area around a star where liquid water can exist on the surface of a planet is called the __________________ Zone
- 14. a rare and extreme black hole
- 15. how far light travels in 1 year
- 17. someone who studies space
- 18. someone from Earth
- 20. a classification scale for hypothetical alien civilizations
- 23. a baby star
- 29. the planet we humans live on
- 30. the stereotypical color of a fictional alien
