This is just a possibly maybe could be but it is still a very exiting possibility. An exoplanet (one orbiting another star) has shown a signature of a compound only made by life here on earth. We need a lot of confirmation before we start laying out a welcome mat for space aliens. Anton explains what has been found - enjoy!
I heard about this, and I love it. I am hoping we get concrete evidence of alien life in my lifetime. Preferably intelligent life, but I’ll take what I can get, lol. The NASA UAP report today was pretty terrible, but one thing that was said is that when they crunch the numbers on the number of stars, the number of planets, the number of planets in the habitable zone, etc, that it is possible that up to a trillion planets in the visible universe could have or at least be able to sustain life.
I'd like there to be evidence of alien life, too. Our current space telescopes have been severely limited by the requirement that every bit of it must fit inside single payloads of recent capacity limits and weather the extreme forces and vibrations of launch. So, even what we get from JWST amounts to spectroscopy on individual pixels we get from exoplanets. I think we're going to need to up our game in a serious way. To me, it seems likely that means we need to assemble this capability in space. Our future in space will surely be based on space based construction, as anything we build on a planet or moon would then need to be launched out of that gravity well - which is the limitation we already face today. Adding people on our Moon or Mars to the equation doesn't make anything easier. We've had practice assembling space stations in space.
