NASA scientists getting closer to finding if there is alien life
Top NASA scientists, at a panel discussion, said they were closer than ever to finding out for sure if extraterrestrial life is somewhere in the immensity of the universe.
The panel included some of NASA’s top scientists, including Ellen Stofan, NASA’s chief scientist; John Grunsfeld, a former astronaut and NASA’s associate administrator; John Mather, senior project scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope; and Dave Gallagher, director of astronomy and physics at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It also included Sara Seager, a planetary scientist at MIT, and Matt Mountain, director of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.
Source: Deborah Netburn
Los Angeles Times
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Video: NASA getting closer to finding alien life
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Video: Space Experts Discuss the Search for Life in the Universe at NASA
NASA space-based observatories are making unprecedented new discoveries and revealing worlds never before seen. During a televised panel discussion of leading science and engineering experts at NASA Headquarters on Monday, July 14, 2014.
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July 16, 2014
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