What Michelle Thaller has said about Exoplanets

2 quotes · 1 episode · May 28, 2026

Michelle Thaller, American astrophysicist, science communicator and retired NASA executive, has been quoted on Exoplanets 2 times in 1 episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, most recently on May 28, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

  • Thaller said the first hard chemical evidence of life beyond Earth may come from a planet around another star rather than Mars or outer-planet moons.

    “I would never have thought the first evidence of life outside the Earth, like a really hard chemical scientific evidence, would be on a planet around another star”

    The Joe Rogan Experience: #2506 - Michelle Thaller (May 28, 2026) · Listen from 14:48

  • Thaller said NASA scientists universally believe life exists elsewhere, finding life only on Earth untenable.

    “All of us to a person at NASA thinks that there must be life out there. The idea that there's only life on the Earth seems untenable”

    The Joe Rogan Experience: #2506 - Michelle Thaller (May 28, 2026) · Listen from 2:00:10

Episodes

  • #2506 - Michelle Thaller

    The Joe Rogan Experience · May 28, 2026 · 2 h 44 min

    Joe Rogan and astrophysicist Michelle Thaller discuss black holes, relativity, quantum entanglement, the Big Bang, NASA missions, AI, consciousness and psychedelics.

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