NASA is actively searching for intelligent life in the universe

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NASA is actively searching for intelligent life in the universe and is 
looking for habitable planets, official says
PUBLISHED TUE, JUL 6 20218:49 PM EDT
Emily DeCiccio

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Intelligent life may exist elsewhere in the universe besides Earth, NASA 
Administrator Bill Nelson said Tuesday, and NASA is actively searching 
for signs.

“If you have a universe that is 13.5 billion years old — it is so big — 
is there another chance for another Sun and another planet that has an 
atmosphere like ours? I would say yes,” said Nelson.

Nelson said NASA has been involved in searching for intelligent life for 
years, and noted that the agency is looking for life on the planets in 
our solar system and elsewhere in the cosmos to determine other Suns 
that have planets with a habitable atmosphere.

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Intelligent life may exist elsewhere in the universe besides Earth, NASA 
Administrator Bill Nelson said in an interview Tuesday, and NASA is 
actively searching for signs.

“If you have a universe that is 13.5 billion years old — it is so big — 
is there another chance for another Sun and another planet that has an 
atmosphere like ours? I would say yes, so I think we’re going to get 
some indication that there’s intelligent life out there,” said Nelson 
during an interview Tuesday.

In a report on unidentified flying objects released June 25, the U.S. 
government couldn’t explain 143 of the 144 cases of UFOs reported by 
military planes from 2004 to 2021, according to the Office of the 
Director of National Intelligence.

Nelson told CNBC’s “The News with Shepard Smith” that NASA has been 
involved in searching for intelligent life for years, and noted that the 
agency is looking for life on the planets in our solar system and 
elsewhere in the cosmos to determine other Suns that have planets with a 
habitable atmosphere.

The former Florida Senator added that part of the search includes 
learning more about Mars. NASA’s experimental helicopter Ingenuity made 
its ninth flight on Mars on Monday. Ingenuity flew for nearly 3 minutes, 
going as fast as 5 meters (over 16 feet) per second, according to a 
tweet from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.

“This particular time, it’s scouting a very sandy region in order to 
determine should the rover go there and possibly get stuck in the sand, 
so Ingenuity is just doing amazing things,” Nelson said.

NASA described Ingenuity’s latest flight as “the most nerve-wracking 
flight since Flight 1.”