Men Are Definitely Not From Mars

Is there life on other planets? And if so, are they the little green men of science fiction?

Professor Ian Stewart from the University of Warwick thinks there is life on other planets and while it could be little and green, it's highly unlikely to be anything we would recognise as men. Despite our fascination with science fiction it seems our imagination rarely extends beyond pointed ears and different coloured skin when we picture alien races.

Now an exhibition at London's Science Museum addresses just what alien life might look like when it develops on planets with different physical and chemical properties to our own. Apply scientific principles and alien life might be very alien indeed. As a scientist who is also a science fiction writer, Professor Stewart was one of the early advisors to the Exhibition and is uniquely positioned to comment on what alien life could really be like!