Extraterrestrial

Odds of alien life are 'pretty high' says NASA's administrator

By T.K. Randall
April 5, 2026

Image: Jared Isaacman at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington (2025)
Credit: Bill Ingalls / (PD) NASA With four astronauts currently on their way for a rendezvous with the Moon in less than 24 hours, the eyes of the world have been fixated on Artemis II over the last few days.

Meanwhile, back home, NASA's administrator Jared Isaacman has been talking a bit about the space agency's own mission and, in particular, its approach to the chances of finding alien life.

On Sunday, he told CNN's Meet the Press that the possibilty that we are not alone in the universe "goes to the heart of many things that we do at NASA".

He also emphasized how the space agency's ambitions to build a base on the Moon could unlock the potential to answer this question by way of a telescope at the lunar south pole.

"When you think about it, we got two trillion galaxies out there," he said."Who knows how many star systems within each of it? I would say the odds that we will find something at some point to suggest that we are not alone are pretty high."

He did note, however, that despite having been to space himself, he hadn't seen any aliens so far.

"[I] didn't encounter any aliens up there," he said. "I have not seen anything to suggest that we have been visited by any intelligent life forms out there."

If the Artemis II mission continues to go to plan, it will help to pave the way for further space exploration missions and a potential manned presence on the Moon and elsewhere.

Perhaps one day in the not too distant future, extraterrestrial life will go from a mere possibility to established, scientific fact.

Source: The Guardian

Tags: Alien, Extraterrestrial, NASA