Lily P. Current Event Project

NASA chief scientist: 'Indications' of alien life by 2025

By Todd Leopold

CNN

Thu May 14, 2015

Lily Pires

Ever heard of aliens? Not green, experiment in your sleep aliens but actual life on other planets. Scientist have found evidence of life on dwarf planets, Ceres and Jupiter's moon Europa. Finding water on both of these places, both the planet and moon. Nothing else has been found as of May 14, 2015 but most scientists claim they will find life by 2025. All scientists are interested in finding life, why you ask? Because it would be amazing! Finding life on other planets would change so many people's lives, maybe for the better. Scientists are also interested in finding life so maybe one day we could send people to that place and make a new home. Or atleast, thats what their thinking. Using the newest technology, NASA can find readings of water on far away planets. Or, they can send drones to moons or planets to take pictures of the landscape. Finding life on other planets will affect us all, for the better or worse, we should learn about what might be out there. That is why this article should be read.

Overall, this article was very interesting and packed with information. I chose this article because I knew nothing about other life forms in space other than they might exist. I wasn’t very interested in life on other planets until I started hearing that scientists has found proof  that there might be other life. What grabbed my attention about this article is the huge bold words “NASA.” If that doesn’t grab your attention, I don’t know what does. Whenever I see the word NASA, I am immediately focused on whatever article or paper. I agree with the author of this article, it is completely possible that life exists on other planets and science has proved it. If scientists do find life on other planets, it will affect us all. Not just in the U.S.A. but all around the world. Finding other life will also affect our technology, learning more about the life form will change our technology. There are some limitations in this new science. Without getting actual pictures of the creatures, the scientist’s research is limited. Because we have no picture of the creatures that are out there we cannot learn a lot about the creature. With more research we should be able to find life in space, and this article gives many reasons why it is possible. The article is very informative and really explains how scientists are working to find other life on planets. And who knows, they might actually be little green people.

“Jupiter Moon Europa.” Pics about space. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Jan. 2016. <http://pics-about-space.com/jupiter-moon-europa?p=2>.

“NASA chief scientist: ‘Indications’ of alien life by 2025.” CNN. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Jan. 2016. <http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/08/us/feat-nasa-scientist-alien-life/index.html>.