NASA's Isaacman: High Odds of Finding Alien Life

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman stated on Sunday that the odds of discovering evidence of extraterrestrial life are "pretty high," emphasizing that the question of whether humanity is alone in the universe drives many of the agency's scientific and exploration efforts.

In an interview on CNN's State of the Union, Isaacman, who has flown to space twice on private missions, addressed the longstanding debate directly. "I've been to space twice, I didn't encounter any aliens up there yet," he said. "I have not seen anything to suggest that we've been visited by any intelligent life forms out there. But when you think about it, we got 2 trillion galaxies out there, 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."

Isaacman linked the search for life to NASA's core mission of unlocking the universe's secrets. "Our job here is to go out and try and unlock the secrets of the universe, and one of those questions is, are we alone?" he said. "So, I would say that is inherent in every one of our scientific endeavors, our exploration endeavors, even building the moon base on...