Summary:
- Nathalie Cabrol, an astrobiologist and director of the SETI Institute's Carl Sagan Center, believes we are closer than ever to finding signs of extraterrestrial life.
- Cabrol highlights the recent discoveries of potentially habitable exoplanets, as well as the growing understanding of how life can thrive in extreme environments on Earth, which informs the search for life beyond our planet.
- She emphasizes the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration and the need to explore a variety of potential biosignatures, including not just chemical signatures but also potential technological signatures, in the search for life elsewhere in the universe.