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How NASA Could Find Evidence of Life on Another Planet Within 25 Years


"In all likelihood, in the next 25 years, we'll find evidence of life on another planet..." begins a new essay by author Dave Eggers in the Washington Post. "In more than a dozen conversations with some of the best minds in astrophysics, I did not meet anyone who was doubtful about finding evide...

"In all likelihood, in the next 25 years, we'll find evidence of life on another planet..." begins a new essay by author Dave Eggers in the Washington Post. Once we can master starlight suppression, with Roman and NASA's next astrophysics flagship, the Habitable Worlds Observatory, we'll find the planets where life might exist. I didn't really know how close we were to this milestone until I visited the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., on a hot and dry day in June... Eggers' article is part of an ongoing series called "Who is government?"

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