The Living Cosmos is a non-fiction book by University of Arizona professor of astronomy Chris Impey on the status of astrobiology.

Possibilities of life in the Solar System are considered next, with emphasis on Mars, Titan, and outer moons harboring liquid water.

After centuries of speculation and decades of futile searching, planets around other stars were first discovered in 1995 and the number is now over 850, with several thousand more candidates from the Kepler mission.

[5] An article on the collaboration between Heather Green and Chris Impey and the artistic and scientific themes of the work was published in the Leonardo Journal online.

[7] Popular magazine Entertainment Weekly gave the book a grade of B+, saying it was "not an easy read" but calling it a "live, elegant overview".