astrobiology
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Astrobiology is the scientific study of potential life beyond Earth, including investigating what forms it might take and where it could exist in the universe. It matters because understanding life's possibilities beyond our planet—such as whether non-DNA-based organisms could exist—helps us search for life elsewhere and deepens our knowledge of life itself.
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Research
6,687 papers- Chapter 1: The Astrobiology Primer 3.0.Astrobiology · 2024
- Preface: The origin of life and astrobiology.Advances in genetics · 2020
- Out of Thin Air? Astrobiology and Atmospheric Chemotrophy.Astrobiology · 2022
- AstRoMap European Astrobiology Roadmap.Astrobiology · 2016
- Analytical Chemistry in Astrobiology.Analytical chemistry · 2021
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Article
23 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Theoretical foundations
- Planetary habitability
- Methods
- Studying terrestrial extremophiles
- Researching Earth's present environment
- Finding biosignatures on other worlds
- Talking to extraterrestrials
- Investigating the early Earth
- Research
- Research outcomes
- Elements of astrobiology
- Astronomy
- Biology
- Philosophy
- Rare Earth hypothesis
- Missions
- Proposed concepts
- See also
- Citations
- General and cited references
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Nucleic acids may not be the only [[biomolecules in the universe capable of coding for life processes.]]
Astrobiology (also xenology or exobiology) is a scientific field within the life and environmental sciences that studies the origins, early evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe by investigating its deterministic conditions and contingent events. As a discipline, astrobiology is founded on the premise that life may exist beyond Earth.