Astrobiologists in Search of a Breakthrough
At last week's Breakthrough Discuss meeting in Berkeley, California, the focus was on the migration of life in the Universe and the search for extraterrestrial life and genomes. The annual conference, sponsored by the Breakthrough Initiatives organization, came only a day after the first pictures from a black hole were published, and the same day Israel's Beresheet probe crashed on the Moona reminder that grandeur and failure sometimes go hand-in-hand when advancing high-risk space projects.