A SPACE mission set to end next year could be about to make a startling discovery about alien life, space boffs reckon.
With probes orbiting Jupiter and Saturn, there are high hopes that 2017 could be the year that we find life on another planet or moon.
The Cassini space probe, which will end its mission in September 2017, has been hotly tipped as the one to watch, according to Doctor Simon Foster, a physicist from Imperial College London.
Cassini is orbiting Saturn’s moons Enceladus and Europa, which have a “good prospect of finding life”, he told the Express.
But truth-seekers might be disappointed as the life forms are more likely to be microbial, rather than in the shape of ET.
It follows several false alarms of alien sightings this year, which got truth-seekers in a tizz.
Strange signals from Space sparked theories that other life-forms were saying hello.
Scientists were forced to consider whether a mystery flashing star was due to an alien mega-structure being used by aliens to harvest energy from a star.
Despite this, Doctor Simon Foster insisted that a breakthrough is on the horizon.
He said: "In the past, when we thought we had discovered aliens previously, it was a new form of star called the pulsar.
"We don’t know hardly anything and when we come up against something we don’t know or doesn’t fit into out current understanding, it is quite nice to say that it could be aliens, whereas a lot of it is just a phenomena that we haven’t discovered.
"Either way, there is a breakthrough just around the corner."
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