Cut | | February 21, 2017

Is there alien life out there? Is there any habitable planets we can go chill out on when our world comes crashing in? All questions we might finally find the answers to 5am this Thursday.

NASA will be holding a news conference to present new findings on planets that orbit stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets. And thanks to technology we can watch it all in our PJs, airing live on NASA Television and the agency’s website.

 

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The people presenting the new facts are:

  •  Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington
  • Michael Gillon, astronomer at the University of Liege in Belgium
  • Sean Carey, manager of NASA’s Spitzer Science Center at Caltech/IPAC, Pasadena, California
  • Nikole Lewis, astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore
  • Sara Seager, professor of planetary science and physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge