Closest advanced aliens may be nearer than expected – here's how we can reach them

Life on Mars might not be viable, according to a study, but aliens might not be as physically far as we first thought – with boffins creating a theory on how to reach them View 3 Images Scientists think we closer to communicating with aliens (Image: AFP/Getty Images)

Scientists think we could be closer than ever to finding alien life on other planets – with a new simple method. This month, Manuel Scherf and Helmut Lammer of the Austrian Academy of Sciences suggested the nearest aliens could be 33,000 light years away . ‌

While that seems quite a distance, another study has revealed that it might be easier than ever to try and make contact with them. Pennsylvania State University and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory looked into a theory that aliens could be tapping into