Representatives from NASA, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Library of Congress testified before a House committee in Washington today to discuss the possibility of life in our solar system and neighboring galaxies, and the message was clear: more money needs to spent in the search for life elsewhere.
"We need to invest in the technology now."
The White House currently has NASA's 2014 budget set for $17.7 billion, which is down about $59 million from what the organization had last year. That figure won't help expedite with the search for future discoveries says Dr. Sara Seager, an astrophysicist at MIT. Seager told the committee the government needs to more deeply invest in technology for detecting gasses on other...
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