‘The announcement we’ve found alien life could be just a couple of years away’
“Generally, when I’m on a plane, if I tell somebody that I search for life on planets around other stars, I don’t get to sleep,” says Lisa Kaltenegger, with a laugh. “It’s always a careful, curated answer depending on if I need to do something next morning when I arrive or not. People are like, ‘Oh, I read about this,’ you know, ‘Have we been visited? Is this true?’”