exobiology
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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
As early as high school, Vakoch began thinking about how you might communicate with an organism that had evolved on another planet, the animating question of a relatively obscure subfield of exobiology known as exosemiotics.
From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2017
You may also sometimes hear this field referred to as exobiology or bioastronomy.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
The reshuffle eliminates a large and unwieldy list of funding programs and reorganizes them into five themes: emerging worlds, Solar System workings, habitable worlds, exobiology and Solar System observations.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 4, 2013
The searing critique caused many researchers in the nascent field to shy away from exobiology.
From Nature ● Mar. 28, 2012
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