{"id":70922,"date":"2026-04-05T12:58:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/chance-of-alien-life-goes-to-heart-of-space-missions-nasa-chief-says\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T12:58:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:58:29","slug":"chance-of-alien-life-goes-to-heart-of-space-missions-nasa-chief-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/chance-of-alien-life-goes-to-heart-of-space-missions-nasa-chief-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Chance of alien life \u2018goes to heart\u2019 of space missions, Nasa chief says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jared Isaacman says odds of evidence we are not alone are \u2018pretty high\u2019 four days after Artemis II rocket lifted off<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2026\/apr\/05\/nasa-orion-spaceship-artemis-ii-mission-in-pictures\">Nasa\u2019s Orion spaceship four days into Artemis II mission: in pictures<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The top official at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/nasa\">Nasa<\/a> says that the chance of alien existence is a factor in how the US space agency plans its missions.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Sunday, Nasa administrator Jared Isaacman told CNN\u2019s Meet the Press that investigating the existence of alien life \u201cgoes to the heart of many things that we do at Nasa\u201d, adding: \u201cOur job here is to go out and try and unlock the secrets of the universe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/05\/alien-life-nasa-jared-isaacman-artemis-ii\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jared Isaacman says odds of evidence we are not alone are \u2018pretty high\u2019 four days after Artemis II rocket lifted off Nasa\u2019s Orion spaceship four days into Artemis II mission: in pictures The top official at Nasa says that the chance of alien existence is a factor in how the US space agency plans its &#8230; <a title=\"Chance of alien life \u2018goes to heart\u2019 of space missions, Nasa chief says\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/chance-of-alien-life-goes-to-heart-of-space-missions-nasa-chief-says\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Chance of alien life \u2018goes to heart\u2019 of space missions, Nasa chief says\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}