With newer and better technology and our increasing ability to reach deeper and deeper into space many experts believe it's only a matter of time before we find some sort of extraterrestrial life. Two astronomers, Seth Shostak and Alexandra Barnett, say it could be as soon as 2025(Mayell). The two astronomers work for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute and search for alien life throughout the universe. Until recently the search for life beyond ours has been limited by technology that that hasn't been able to reach deep into space with the sensitivity needed to find life(Mayell)
Fortunately new breakthroughs in satellite and telescope technology are finally giving scientist the tools to accurately search for life. In 2007 NASA launched the Kepler probe to search for planets that exist a distance from there sun where liquid water may present, called the "habitable zone"(Mayell). Also new telescopes like the Allen telescope Array in California will allow astronomers to survey 100,000 stars by 2015 giving a good chance of finding something very interesting(Mayell).
With new technology and and ever wider idea of where life may be able to live the next few years should be very exacting for space exploration in general but also for the search for extraterrestrial life. Many people have come forward having eyewitness accounts of alien life but with nothing confirmed its hard to know what is fact or fiction. What is known is that the universe is unimaginably huge filled with billions of stars and planets so there has to be a pretty good chance were not alone. Until there is confirmed life found on another planet people will always wonder, and who knows maybe we will never find anything but its always very exciting to wonder what if?
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