Swiss Government Scientist Says We're on the Brink of Discovering Alien Life

A scientist working for the government of Switzerland has made a bold prediction about the discovery of alien life.

The head of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology believes that humans will discover life beyond our planet in the next 25 years.

During the opening of the institute's new Center for the Origin and Prevalence of Life in September, the Noble Prize winner said that his colleague discovered the first planet outside our solar system. More than 5,000 exoplanets are known and we are discovering them every day.

Dozens of the thousands of exoplanets are thought to be at least potentially habitable with the conditions on their surface suitable for liquid water. It is growing all the time.

These fascinating worlds are being looked at more closely with advanced technology.

The professor said that they needed to investigate the atmospheres of the planets. We need an observational approach that allows us to take pictures.

Though the James Webb Space Telescope has already captured arresting images of one giant exoplanet, its primary focus is on imagery of stars and not smaller planets.

A European Space Agency mission to study the atmospheres of exoplanets for signs of extraterrestrial life and a giant ground-based instrument being developed as an addition to the Extremely Large Telescope are both coming to that location.

The Large Interferometer for Exoplanets or LIFE, which was conceived in 2017, is still in an early study phase, and has not yet received either approval or funding from the European Space Agency.

The LIFE program is a huge step for the search for intelligent life, which has gained unprecedented traction in recent years, as the scientific community begins to take the concept of us into account.

His search for life outside of our solar system is not realistic.

The researcher said there wasn't a guarantee of success. We're going to learn something else.

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