NASA researchers announced on Wednesday that they are looking for the best ways and places to hunt for alien life in upcoming space missions.

They said they are open and willing to search for life outside of Earth despite cosmologist Stephen Hawking’s suggestion that “humans shouldn’t be so eager to find aliens since there’s a chance they would want to colonize Earth or strip it for resources.”

During a teleconference at the NASA headquarters, Astrobiology senior scientist Mary Voytek said, “We’re interested and prepared to discover any form of life.”

Another expert in this field is planetary scientist Steve Squyres, who is also the head investigator of the Mars Exploration Rover project. He said NASA is considering 28 different future science missions to discover E.T. life. “Astrobiology and the search for life is really central to what we should be doing next in the exploration of the solar system,” he added.

Other participants of the teleconference were:

Bill Schopf  (researcher – University of California, Los Angeles)

Jack Farmer (researcher-Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona)

John Peters (researcher-Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana)

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