Is life beyond Earth just science fiction- or a reality waiting to be discovered? In this thrilling TEDxPatras 2025 talk, Dr. Anezina Solomonidou, planetologist, takes us on a journey from Galileo’s telescope to NASA’s Cassini-Huygens mission to Titan, and beyond. She explores how bold imagination, scientific courage, and space missions like JUICE, Europa Clipper, and Dragonfly are reshaping what we know and what we dare to dream about life in the universe. Dr. Anezina Solomonidou is a planetary scientist specializing in planetary geology and investigating the potentially habitable worlds of our solar system. She is the Scientific Officer of the Greek Space Agency for Space Sciences and Exploration.She obtained her doctoral title in astronomy and astrophysics from the Paris Observatory in France. She has worked for many years at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Caltech in Los Angeles, California, on the Cassini-Huygens and the Europa Clipper missions, as well as the European Space Agency (ESA) in Madrid for the preparation of ESA’s new space mission, JUICE.She has authored a plethora of articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and chapters in books. Dr. Solomonidou has proposed a series of planetary experiments and has contributed to the design of future missions. She is the President of the Division for Planetary Sciences (PS) for the European Geosciences Union (EGU) and serves as a review panelist for international boards and NASA panels, where she evaluates scientific proposals for planetary research. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx