The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to astrobiology:
Astrobiology – study of the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe. Earth is the only known inhabited planet in the universe to date. However, advancements in the fields of astrobiology, observational astronomy and discovery of large varieties of extremophiles with extraordinary capability to thrive in the harshest environments on Earth, have led to speculation that life may possibly be thriving on many of the extraterrestrial bodies in the universe. This interdisciplinary field encompasses the search for habitable environments in our Solar System and habitable planets outside our Solar System, the search for evidence of prebiotic chemistry, laboratory and field research into the origins and early evolution of life on Earth, and studies of the potential for life to adapt to challenges on Earth and in outer space.[1]
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What type of thing is astrobiology?
Branches of astrobiology
Contributory fields
Astrobiology makes use of the following fields:
History of astrobiology
- Main article: History of astrobiology
General astrobiology concepts
- Aerial Regional-scale Environmental Survey
- Allan Hills 84001
- Arsenic biochemistry
- Astrobiology
- Astroecology
- Back-contamination
- Beagle 2
- Beagle 2: Evolution
- Biosignature
- Blood Falls
- Carbon chauvinism
- CHON
- Contact Conference
- Cosmic evolution
- Geysers on Mars
- ExoMars
- Extraterrestrial life
- Forward-contamination
- GFAJ-1
- Gravitational biology
- Habitability of red dwarf systems
- Habitable moon
- Hypothetical types of biochemistry
- ISSOL
- Life on Mars
- Life form
- Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment
- Mars Astrobiology Explorer-Cacher
- Murasaki (novel)
- Murchison meteorite
- Neocatastrophism
- Orgueil (meteorite)
- Panspermia
- Pavilion Lake
- Planetary habitability
- Purple Earth hypothesis
- Rare Earth hypothesis
- Reports of Streptococcus mitis on the moon
- Shadow biosphere
- Shergotty meteorite
- Speculative evolution
- Rio Tinto (river)
- Viking biological experiments
Astrobiology publications
Astrobiology organizations
- Astrobiology Field Laboratory
- Astrobiology Science and Technology for Exploring Planets (ASTEP)
- Astrobiology Society of Britain
- Lunar Receiving Laboratory
- NASA Astrobiology Institute
Persons influential in astrobiology
- George E. Fox
- Antonio Lazcano
- David S. McKay
- David Morrison (astrophysicist)
- Caleb Scharf
- Janet Siefert
See also
References
- ^ "About Astrobiology". NASA Astrobiology Institute. NASA. January 21, 2008. http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/about-astrobiology/. Retrieved 2008-10-20.
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