WASHINGTON 鈥� Is there life elsewhere in the universe? There鈥檚 no evidence yet, but several NASA scientists think we鈥檒l find it 鈥斅爒ery soon.
that at a NASA panel event on recent discoveries of water and organics in our solar system, NASA chief scientist Ellen Stofan predicted we鈥檒l find 鈥渟trong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade, and I think we鈥檙e going to have definitive evidence within 20 to 30 years.鈥�
She added, “We know where to look. We know how to look.鈥�
Jeffrey Newmark, NASA’s interim director of heliophysics, agreed, saying, “It’s definitely not an if; it’s a when.鈥�
Stofan cautioned that the discovery would probably be a bit of a letdown to those looking for an ET-like experience: “We are not talking about little green men. We are talking about little microbes.”
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