Finding extraterrestrial life ‘probably going to take a long time,’ astronomer says0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 6, 2019
If you had hopes of finding E.T. anytime soon, one astronomer is about to burst your bubble.
If you had hopes of finding E.T. anytime soon, one astronomer is about to burst your bubble.
‘We’re looking forward to working together as we try to answer one of the most profound questions about our place in the universe: Are we alone?’
“If they are here, I hope they’re nice,” Musk says.
There are plenty of scenarios in which aliens could exist but we haven’t heard from them, the study authors wrote. Aliens may have even visited Earth, they say, just not recently enough for us to have noticed.
What started as an internet joke has generated a stern military warning after more than a million people “signed up” to “raid” Area 51—a secretive military installation in Southern Nevada long fancied by conspiracy theorists to be hiding evidence of a crashed UFO with aliens. The purpose of the planned raid is in order to “see them aliens.”
While the truth might be out there, technological aliens don’t seem to be — at least not yet.
According to NASA, scientists are in agreement that there is no life on Mars. However, they continue to assess whether Mars ever had an environment capable of supporting microbial life.
Breakthrough Listen project found no evidence of alien civilisations on 1,327 stars
In 2020, NASA and European-Russian missions will look for evidence of past life on Mars. But while volcanic, igneous rock predominates on the Red Planet, virtually the entire Earth fossil record comes from sedimentary rocks.
For a few decades now, the leading edge of science and especially astronomy has been at least partially dedicated to the search for one of the most fundamental philosophical questions we have — are we alone in the universe?