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8 April 2015updated 17 Jan 2024 6:32am

Nasa chief scientist says we’re (possibly) only a decade away from finding alien life

It's increasingly clear that the Solar System is more life-friendly than we'd previously suspected.

By Ian Steadman

Some provocative news today, as reported by Space.com – Nasa chief scientist Ellen Stofan told a panel yesterday that we’re only “decades” from having “definitive proof” of alien life:

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