exobiology
Americannoun
noun
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The branch of biology that deals with the search for extraterrestrial life and the effects of extraterrestrial surroundings on living organisms.
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Also called astrobiology
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The data Europa Clipper collects will help scientists determine whether the icy moon really is the prime exobiology candidate they think that it may be.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2023
Dr. Lederberg then talked the topic up to officials at the National Academy of Sciences and NASA, calling it not astrobiology but exobiology.
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2020
Frances Westall, director of the exobiology group at the French National Center for Scientific Research’s Center for Molecular Biophysics in Orléans, notes that forming the bases requires very specific conditions.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 22, 2020
You may also sometimes hear this field referred to as exobiology or bioastronomy.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
In 1964, palaeontologist George Gaylord Simpson wrote a stinging dismissal of exobiology, the search for life on other planets.
From Nature ● Mar. 28, 2012
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