Have each of us at least once in our lives thought about how the Universe came to be? What is life? The author of the book “Intelligent Life in the Universe,” which has already been published in its 2nd edition, tries to answer these and many related questions. The author tries to combine the knowledge accumulated by humanity in various fields of science, such as astrophysics, biochemistry, genetics, geology, outlining there are quite a lot of them. But in the book, as in science today, there is no answer to the question of what intelligence is and what is the probability of the emergence of intelligent life in the Universe.P. Ulmschneider draws attention to a huge number of questions, giving the reader the opportunity to think about the answers on their own. The book is beautifully illustrated and is intended for a wide range of readers of fundamental natural science literature.