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OCR: IS THERE LIFE ELSEWHERE? LIVING IN SPACE SO FAR WE HAVE found no trace of life elsewhere in the Solar System. However, there are billions of stars and galaxies. Many of these stars are like the Sun, and we know that one may even have planets similar to those in the Solar System. Optical telescopes are not powerful enough to see another planet like the Earth, but they can see the dust around stars where planets might form. SETI - the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - is a group of scientists ARECIBO, PUERTO RICO searching for intelligent life elsewhere Signals were sent from the in our galaxy. They use radio dishes to Arecibo radio telescope toward collect radio signals from space and a cluster of stars 25,000 light analyze them with a computer, years away; the earliest reply which ...