What aren't They telling us?

I trust you can connect THESE two dots:

NYT headline and lede:

New Planet May Be Able to Nurture Organisms

It might be a place that only a lichen or pond scum could love, but astronomers said Wednesday that they had found a very distant planet capable of harboring water on its surface, thus potentially making it a home for plant or animal life.

Big Think headline:

U.N. to Establish Protocols for When We Make Contact With Aliens

Date-stamps on these article? Two. Days. Apart.

WAKE UP SHEEPLE. [Added: And see the comments for MORE.]

(The NYT piece is actually pretty interesting.)