Extraterrestrial life is
life that does not originate from
Earth. It is also called
alien life, or, if it is a
sentient and/or relatively complex individual, an "extraterrestrial" or "alien" (or, to avoid confusion with
the legal sense of "alien", a "
space alien"). These as-yet-hypothetical life forms range from simple
bacteria-like
organisms to beings with civilizations far more advanced than
humanity. Although many scientists expect extraterrestrial life to exist, there is no unambiguous evidence for its existence so far.