ANOTHER year has passed and there’s still no confirmation that there’s alien life in the universe.
Some experts believe we’re very close to a breakthrough and there are plenty of space missions and studies planned for 2024.
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IS NASA CLOSE TO FINDING ALIENS?
Dr. Michelle Thaller, a scientist at Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Center, previously told The U.S. Sun that she thinks we’re quite close to finding aliens.
She told us: “I definitely think we’ll find life on another planet.
“I think that in our own Solar System, we’re quite close to it but once again we don’t have that 100 percent thing.
“On Mars, we see chemistry that on Earth if it were here we would say is due to life.
“But the question is, how well do we understand Mars and are we being fooled by something?”
Ellen Stofan, a previous Nasa chief scientist, claimed humans would have found “strong indications” of alien life by 2025, according to Space.com.
She was said to make the prediction during a Nasa panel discussion about habitable worlds in 2015.
Stofan reportedly said: “I think we’re going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade, and I think we’re going to have definitive evidence within 20 to 30 years.”
THE HUNT CONTINUES
Breakthrough Listen is one of the largest projects that will continue to hunt for alien life in 2024.
Its website describes it as “the largest ever scientific research program aimed at finding evidence of civilizations beyond Earth.”
The project will start using data from the Vera Rubin Observatory in Northern Chile in 2024.
It features a 3200-megapixel camera and will scan the sky above it every three to four nights.
Experts predict this will help scientists find 20 billion galaxies and a similar amount of stars.
The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency also plans to launch its Martian Moon eXploration in 2024.
Nasa has several missions planned including Artemis 2, which should see humans fly around the Moon at the end of the year.
The US space agency also intends to launch its Europa Clipper spacecraft in the same year, which will explore one of Jupiter’s largest moons.