The international conference "Life in the Universe", which opens today in Sofia, will bring together inernational scholars and Nobel Prize winners, the event’s organizers Action Global Communications Bulgaria said. 

The forum is part of the programme for cooperation between eminent scholars of various research fields aimed at answering the most fundamental question of our time - how life originated. Researchers from the Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the European Southern Observatory, NASA experts, as well as representatives of universities in Europe and the USA, including Cambridge and Harvard, will attend the forum. Nobel Prize winner Prof. Didier Queloz, founder of the first exoplanet, Prof. Dimitar Sasselov (Harvard University) who is one of the leaders of NASA's Kepler Mission, which observes more than 100,000 stars in a four-year search of exoplanets similar to the Earth, will also participate at the international conference.