The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has called on a priest and other religious experts to prepare the Earth for a possible encounter with aliens.

NASA has gathered the advice and expertise of 24 theologians (theology - the study of religion; a review of human experience of belief and how different peoples and cultures express it) to help predict how cultures and religions will react. different from around the world for contact with aliens, reports The Times.

In 2014, the Princeton University Center for Theological Research (CTI) in New Jersey was awarded a $ 1.1 million grant, which will now conduct research on human reaction to aliens.

Dr. Andrew Davidson, a British priest and theologian at Cambridge University, is one of 24 people who will debate how the long-awaited discovery of aliens would be expected by different religions across the globe, reports Dazed. Davidson is of the opinion that God has created other life forms in the universe.

Former head of NASA's Institute of Astrobiology Carl Pilcher explained that theologians were contacted to bridge the gap between science and religion. Pilcher believes it is "simply unimaginable" to think that Earth is the only planet where there is life, "when there are over 100 billion stars in this galaxy and over 100 billion galaxies in the universe."