Question about Judaism and extraterrestrial life

Good evening, dear Rabbi Michael,

First of all, it is an honor for me to write you an email 🙂

It all started with a Shabbat dinner we dropped by a couple of friends of mine and my wife’s, and during the meal, my friend Shai and I started an interesting philosophical discussion – how Judaism throughout its generations thinks about and relates to intelligent life outside of Earth.

It all started at Shabbat dinner after my friend Shai started talking about an article he read in Yedioth Ahronoth with Prof. Haim Eshed.

Prof. Eshed claims that there is certainly intelligent life outside of Earth and that humanity is not yet mentally ready to be exposed to those civilizations that are already at the gates of our world.

I will add that I am an amateur astronomer who reads and watches many lectures in the field.
I will summarize and say that basically the Kepler space telescope has been focusing on a range of 6 square centimeters in the sky since 2009 and since then to this day.
Found about 4,000 planets that are not too close and not too far from the same star of each of them. Therefore, there is most likely life on those planets.
And all this only in our galaxy – the Milky Way 🙂
NASA does not have the ability to inspect those 6 square centimeters in the sky because it is on the order of 100,000,000 suns, and is therefore appealing to the general public for help with the reviews and expectations that need to be made…

Therefore, the obvious conclusion is that there is a 99.9% chance that there is life outside of Earth.

Simply amazing – no words 🙂

As a traditional and believing person, I would be happy to receive your explanation of how Judaism accepts this fact and how this fact is consistent with our faith.

I need your help with a number of atheist friends and colleagues who are asking me questions on the subject and I don’t know how to answer them.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart, dear Rabbi Michael, keep up the great work,