Dr. Loeb is the chair of the Breakthrough Starshot Advisory Committee. That's a $100 million project to find a new Earth for humans. The heavily funded group is actively searching for alien life with the hopes of asking the aliens if we could move to their planet in the event that something happens to ours.

Episode 1: Avi Loeb, alien hunter and chair of Harvard's astronomy department

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Episode 1: Avi Loeb, alien hunter and chair of Harvard's astronomy department

Episode 1: Avi Loeb, alien hunter and chair of Harvard's astronomy department