The latest from NASA’s search for life beyond Earth
When I was a kid, I was completely obsessed with space. I’d spend hours staring at the stars, wishing I could jump into a rocket and travel through the stars like the astronauts I saw in films on TV. As I got older, this curiosity only deepened as I started to ask questions about what I saw in the sky. How were stars created? How big was the universe? Was there life on other planets? I wanted to know it all.
Of course, I wasn’t alone in my curiosity. Entire teams of people at NASA have dedicated their careers to finding answers to these questions. So it was a childhood dream come true when Google Arts & Culture invited me to interview NASA astrobiologist Heather Graham, which you can watch in our new documentary “Unpack it“.
“Unpack it” takes a look at what life is, where we would find it beyond Earth and what it would look like.