The search for life is under threat
Just as NASA’s flagship telescope is enabling breakthroughs, the search for life is falling under threat. Last week, a proposal from within the White House slated a nearly 50% cut to NASA science that would eviscerate space research and halt the development of nearly every future science project at the agency, in what our chief of space policy described as an “extinction-level” event. If these cuts go forward, they would undermine the search for life just as we’re becoming capable of the sort of astonishing discovery that might answer our most fundamental question: Are we alone?
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