WASHINGTON: Nasa has no announcements to make about the discovery of alien life, a

spokesperson said, dismissing

media reports which claimed that the US space agency was about to discover
extraterrestrial life. Last week, the
hacking group 'Anonymous' posted a video on YouTube suggesting that Nasa is about
to announce the discovery of
life beyond Earth. "Contrary to some reports, there's no pending announcement from
Nasa regarding
extraterrestrial life," Nasa science chief Thomas Zurbuchen said in a Twitter
post. "Are we alone in the
universe? While we do not know yet, we have missions moving forward that may help
answer that fundamental
question," Zurbuchen added in tweet. Anonymous' video focused on a testimony
Zurbuchen gave in April during
a hearing of the House of Representatives' Committee on Science, Space, and
Technology. During the hearing,
called "Advances in the Search for Life," Zurbuchen laid out the progress Nasa has
been making in the hunt for
life in the cosmos. Recommended By Colombia He cited thousands of exoplanets
spotted by the Kepler space
telescope, the recent discovery of hydrogen in the geysers blasting from the south
pole of Saturn's moon
Enceladus, and the possible detection of water-vapour plumes emanating from the
Jovian satellite Europa,
'Space.com' reported. "Taking into account all of the different activities and
missions that are specifically
searching for evidence of alien life, we are on the verge of making one of the most
profound, unprecedented
discoveries in history," Zurbuchen said during the hearing. In the recent video,
Anonymous highlighted just
the second half of this sentence. "Nasa: 'Mankind is about to discover
extraterrestrial life,'" an Anonymous
spokesman wearing the group's famous Guy Fawkes mask said in the video