"Life form" subtilely connotes alien life, doesn't it? Especially when you put it in a sentence with NASA and Spacecraft. When they discover actual life on Ma

"Life form" subtilely connotes alien life, doesn't it? Especially when you put it in a sentence with NASA and Spacecraft. When they discover actual life on Mars and Europa, it's probably going to have a lot less impact due to the lack of self restraint in using desensitizing wording like this among journalists (Scientific American??)