{"id":188218,"date":"2024-04-27T02:28:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T07:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/seti-scientist-says-announcement-of-alien-life-could-be-imminent"},"modified":"2024-04-27T02:28:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T07:28:25","slug":"seti-scientist-says-announcement-of-alien-life-could-be-imminent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/seti-scientist-says-announcement-of-alien-life-could-be-imminent","title":{"rendered":"SETI Scientist Says Announcement of Alien Life Could Be Imminent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/seti-scientist-says-announcement-of-alien-life-could-be-imminent2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the world\u2019s foremost experts in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) believes that with the help of the <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/scientists-surprised-red-dots-james-webb-images-black-holes\" class=\"\">James Webb Space Telescope<\/a>, humans are closer to discovering life outside our planet than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Kaltenegger, who directs the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2024\/04\/25\/lisa-kaltenegger-alien-earths-planet-hunting\/\" class=\"\">told <em>The Telegraph<\/em><\/a> this week that because the Webb Telescope is designed to detect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1073\/pnas.2117933119?doi=10.1073%2Fpnas.2117933119\" class=\"\">biosignatures<\/a> \u2014 the scientific word for \u201csigns of life,\u201d including organism-produced <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/nasa-methane-life-mars\" class=\"\">methane gas<\/a> \u2014 we may well find ETs very soon.<\/p>\n<p>Kaltnegger, whose new book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/work\/editions\/148388405-alien-earths-the-new-science-of-planet-hunting-in-the-cosmos\" class=\"\">Alien Earths: Planet Hunting in the Cosmos<\/a>\u201d was published this month, waxed enthusiastic when discussing the JWST, bragging that with its technological leaps, humanity is now in \u201cthis era of golden exploration, with thousands of other worlds on our doorstep, that we now can actually explore.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world\u2019s foremost experts in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) believes that with the help of the James Webb Space Telescope, humans are closer to discovering life outside our planet than ever before. Lisa Kaltenegger, who directs the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell, told The Telegraph this week that because the Webb [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}