Do aliens exist? We studied what scientists really think

News stories about the likely existence of extraterrestrial life, and our chances of detecting it, tend to be positive. The results reveal that 86.6% of the surveyed astrobiologists responded either “agree” or “strongly agree” that it’s likely that extraterrestrial life exists somewhere in the universe. When we turn to “complex” extraterrestrial life or “intelligent” aliens, our results were 67.4% agreement, and 58.2% agreement, respectively for astrobiologists and other scientists. There is actually a lot of “indirect” or “theoretical” evidence that alien life exists. In that case, we would still answer “agree” to the statement that it is likely that alien life exists in the universe.