{"id":43720,"date":"2023-11-11T13:38:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T13:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cabanesetcompagnie.com\/?p=43720"},"modified":"2023-11-11T13:38:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T13:38:53","slug":"astronomers-will-find-alien-life-within-a-decade-as-its-likely-hiding-where-were-already-looking-scientist-reveals-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cabanesetcompagnie.com\/world-news\/astronomers-will-find-alien-life-within-a-decade-as-its-likely-hiding-where-were-already-looking-scientist-reveals-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers will find alien life 'within a decade' as it's likely hiding where we're already looking, scientist reveals | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"
SCIENTISTS could find alien life within a decade and it's likely somewhere we have already been looking, according to an astrobiology expert.<\/p>\n
Jonathon Stone, also known as Doc Roc, told The U.S. Sun about his prediction but fears humans won't visit planets with extraterrestrials within his lifetime.<\/p>\n
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Stone works as an Associate Professor at McMaster University in Canada.<\/p>\n
He told us: "I predicted to a graduate class in astrobiology that I teach that a claim to have discovered evidence consistent with 'life' elsewhere would appear in a scientific journal within a decade."<\/p>\n
Stone says he made this prediction a few years ago, so time remains to test whether it is correct.<\/p>\n
The expert believes current research into exoplanets could be the key to finding alien life.<\/p>\n
Exoplanets are just planets that exist outside our solar system – and over 5,000 of them have been discovered so far.<\/p>\n
Stone continued: "The claim probably will be offered by astronomers indirectly examining atmospheres around planets in solar systems other than our own.<\/p>\n
"In that sense, yes, I predict that we will."<\/p>\n
There are many teams of astronomers already on the lookout for exoplanets that might support life, including Nasa researchers.<\/p>\n
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