Table of Contents
225 relations: Abiogenesis, Abundance of the chemical elements, Alexander Oparin, Aliphatic compound, Allan Hills 84001, Amino acid, Ammonia, Ancient Greek, Andy Weir, Antarctica, Anthropic principle, Anthropocentrism, Arabidopsis thaliana, Arecibo message, Aromaticity, Associated Press, Astrobiology (journal), Astrobiology Magazine, Atmospheric science, Avi Loeb, Bacillus safensis, Bacillus subtilis, Bacteria, Beagle 2, Big Bang, Biology, Biomolecule, Biosignature, Biotic material, Cambridge University Press, Carbon, Carbon dioxide, Carbon-based life, Carl Sagan, Cassini–Huygens, Chemosynthesis, CI1 fossils, Clam, CNES, Cognitive science, Communication with extraterrestrial intelligence, CoRoT, Cosmic dust, Cosmology, Crustacean, Curiosity (rover), Cyanobacteria, Darwin (spacecraft), David S. McKay, Deinococcus radiodurans, ... Expand index (175 more) »
- Astronomical sub-disciplines
- Speculative evolution
Abiogenesis
Abiogenesis is the natural process by which life arises from non-living matter, such as simple organic compounds. Astrobiology and Abiogenesis are origin of life.
See Astrobiology and Abiogenesis
Abundance of the chemical elements
The abundance of the chemical elements is a measure of the occurrence of the chemical elements relative to all other elements in a given environment.
See Astrobiology and Abundance of the chemical elements
Alexander Oparin
Alexander Ivanovich Oparin (Александр Иванович Опарин; – 21 April 1980) was a Soviet biochemist notable for his theories about the origin of life and for his book The Origin of Life. Astrobiology and Alexander Oparin are origin of life.
See Astrobiology and Alexander Oparin
Aliphatic compound
In organic chemistry, hydrocarbons (compounds composed solely of carbon and hydrogen) are divided into two classes: aromatic compounds and aliphatic compounds (G. aleiphar, fat, oil).
See Astrobiology and Aliphatic compound
Allan Hills 84001
Allan Hills 84001 (ALH84001) is a fragment of a Martian meteorite that was found in the Allan Hills in Antarctica on December 27, 1984, by a team of American meteorite hunters from the ANSMET project.
See Astrobiology and Allan Hills 84001
Amino acid
Amino acids are organic compounds that contain both amino and carboxylic acid functional groups.
See Astrobiology and Amino acid
Ammonia
Ammonia is an inorganic chemical compound of nitrogen and hydrogen with the formula.
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
See Astrobiology and Ancient Greek
Andy Weir
Andrew Taylor Weir (born June 16, 1972) is an American novelist.
See Astrobiology and Andy Weir
Antarctica
Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.
See Astrobiology and Antarctica
Anthropic principle
The anthropic principle, also known as the observation selection effect, is the hypothesis that the range of possible observations that could be made about the universe is limited by the fact that observations are only possible in the type of universe that is capable of developing intelligent life.
See Astrobiology and Anthropic principle
Anthropocentrism
Anthropocentrism is the belief that human beings are the central or most important entity on the planet.
See Astrobiology and Anthropocentrism
Arabidopsis thaliana
Arabidopsis thaliana, the thale cress, mouse-ear cress or arabidopsis, is a small plant from the mustard family (Brassicaceae), native to Eurasia and Africa.
See Astrobiology and Arabidopsis thaliana
Arecibo message
The Arecibo message is an interstellar radio message carrying basic information about humanity and Earth that was sent to the globular cluster Messier 13 in 1974.
See Astrobiology and Arecibo message
Aromaticity
In organic chemistry, aromaticity is a chemical property describing the way in which a conjugated ring of unsaturated bonds, lone pairs, or empty orbitals exhibits a stabilization stronger than would be expected by the stabilization of conjugation alone.
See Astrobiology and Aromaticity
Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
See Astrobiology and Associated Press
Astrobiology (journal)
Astrobiology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life across the universe.
See Astrobiology and Astrobiology (journal)
Astrobiology Magazine
Astrobiology Magazine (exploring the solar system and beyond), or Astrobiology Mag, was an American, formerly NASA-sponsored, international online popular science magazine that contained popular science content, which referred to articles for the general reader on science and technology subjects.
See Astrobiology and Astrobiology Magazine
Atmospheric science
Atmospheric science is the study of the Earth's atmosphere and its various inner-working physical processes.
See Astrobiology and Atmospheric science
Avi Loeb
Abraham "Avi" Loeb (אברהם (אבי) לייב; born February 26, 1962) is an Israeli-American theoretical physicist who works on astrophysics and cosmology.
Bacillus safensis
Bacillus safensis is a Gram-positive, spore-forming, and rod bacterium, originally isolated from a spacecraft in Florida and California.
See Astrobiology and Bacillus safensis
Bacillus subtilis
Bacillus subtilis, known also as the hay bacillus or grass bacillus, is a gram-positive, catalase-positive bacterium, found in soil and the gastrointestinal tract of ruminants, humans and marine sponges.
See Astrobiology and Bacillus subtilis
Bacteria
Bacteria (bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell.
Beagle 2
The Beagle 2 is an inoperative British Mars lander that was transported by the European Space Agency's 2003 Mars Express mission.
Big Bang
The Big Bang is a physical theory that describes how the universe expanded from an initial state of high density and temperature.
Biology
Biology is the scientific study of life.
Biomolecule
A biomolecule or biological molecule is loosely defined as a molecule produced by a living organism and essential to one or more typically biological processes.
See Astrobiology and Biomolecule
Biosignature
A biosignature (sometimes called chemical fossil or molecular fossil) is any substance, such as an element, isotope, molecule, or phenomenon, that provides scientific evidence of past or present life on a planet.
See Astrobiology and Biosignature
Biotic material
Biotic material or biological derived material is any material that originates from living organisms.
See Astrobiology and Biotic material
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
See Astrobiology and Cambridge University Press
Carbon
Carbon is a chemical element; it has symbol C and atomic number 6.
Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.
See Astrobiology and Carbon dioxide
Carbon-based life
Carbon is a primary component of all known life on Earth, and represents approximately 45–50% of all dry biomass.
See Astrobiology and Carbon-based life
Carl Sagan
Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, and science communicator.
See Astrobiology and Carl Sagan
Cassini–Huygens
Cassini–Huygens, commonly called Cassini, was a space-research mission by NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to send a space probe to study the planet Saturn and its system, including its rings and natural satellites.
See Astrobiology and Cassini–Huygens
Chemosynthesis
In biochemistry, chemosynthesis is the biological conversion of one or more carbon-containing molecules (usually carbon dioxide or methane) and nutrients into organic matter using the oxidation of inorganic compounds (e.g., hydrogen gas, hydrogen sulfide) or ferrous ions as a source of energy, rather than sunlight, as in photosynthesis.
See Astrobiology and Chemosynthesis
CI1 fossils
CI1 fossils refer to alleged morphological evidence of microfossils found in five CI1 carbonaceous chondrite meteorite fall: Alais, Orgueil, Ivuna, Tonk and Revelstoke.
See Astrobiology and CI1 fossils
Clam
Clam is a common name for several kinds of bivalve molluscs.
CNES
CNES is the French national space agency.
Cognitive science
Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary, scientific study of the mind and its processes.
See Astrobiology and Cognitive science
Communication with extraterrestrial intelligence
The communication with extraterrestrial intelligence (CETI) is a branch of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) that focuses on composing and deciphering interstellar messages that theoretically could be understood by another technological civilization.
See Astrobiology and Communication with extraterrestrial intelligence
CoRoT
CoRoT (French: Convection, Rotation et Transits planétaires; English: Convection, Rotation and planetary Transits) was a space telescope mission which operated from 2006 to 2013.
Cosmic dust
Cosmic dustalso called extraterrestrial dust, space dust, or star dustis dust that occurs in outer space or has fallen onto Earth.
See Astrobiology and Cosmic dust
Cosmology
Cosmology is a branch of physics and metaphysics dealing with the nature of the universe, the cosmos.
See Astrobiology and Cosmology
Crustacean
Crustaceans are a group of arthropods that are a part of the subphylum Crustacea, a large, diverse group of mainly aquatic arthropods including decapods (shrimps, prawns, crabs, lobsters and crayfish), seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, opossum shrimps, amphipods and mantis shrimp.
See Astrobiology and Crustacean
Curiosity (rover)
Curiosity is a car-sized Mars rover exploring Gale crater and Mount Sharp on Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission.
See Astrobiology and Curiosity (rover)
Cyanobacteria
Cyanobacteria, also called Cyanobacteriota or Cyanophyta, are a phylum of autotrophic gram-negative bacteria that can obtain biological energy via oxygenic photosynthesis.
See Astrobiology and Cyanobacteria
Darwin (spacecraft)
Darwin was a suggested ESA Cornerstone mission which would have involved a constellation of four to nine spacecraft designed to directly detect Earth-like planets orbiting nearby stars and search for evidence of life on these planets.
See Astrobiology and Darwin (spacecraft)
David S. McKay
David Stewart McKay (September 25, 1936 – February 20, 2013) was chief scientist for astrobiology at the Johnson Space Center.
See Astrobiology and David S. McKay
Deinococcus radiodurans
Deinococcus radiodurans is a bacterium, an extremophile and one of the most radiation-resistant organisms known.
See Astrobiology and Deinococcus radiodurans
Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel, known as The Discovery Channel from 1985 to 1995, and often referred to as simply Discovery, is an American cable channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav.
See Astrobiology and Discovery Channel
Discovery Program
The Discovery Program is a series of Solar System exploration missions funded by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) through its Planetary Missions Program Office.
See Astrobiology and Discovery Program
DNA
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix.
Dragonfly (Titan space probe)
Dragonfly is a planned NASA mission to send a robotic rotorcraft to the surface of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.
See Astrobiology and Dragonfly (Titan space probe)
Drake equation
The Drake equation is a probabilistic argument used to estimate the number of active, communicative extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy.
See Astrobiology and Drake equation
DSV Alvin
Alvin (DSV-2) is a crewed deep-ocean research submersible owned by the United States Navy and operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
See Astrobiology and DSV Alvin
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.
Ecology
Ecology is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment. Astrobiology and Ecology are branches of biology.
Ecosystem
An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system that environments and their organisms form through their interaction.
See Astrobiology and Ecosystem
Enceladus
Enceladus is the sixth-largest moon of Saturn and the 19th-largest in the Solar System.
See Astrobiology and Enceladus
Enceladus Life Finder
Enceladus Life Finder (ELF) is a proposed astrobiology mission concept for a NASA spacecraft intended to assess the habitability of the internal aquatic ocean of Enceladus, which is Saturn's sixth-largest moon of at least 146 total moons, and seemingly similar in chemical makeup to comets.
See Astrobiology and Enceladus Life Finder
Environmental science
Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physics, biology, meteorology, mathematics and geography (including ecology, chemistry, plant science, zoology, mineralogy, oceanography, limnology, soil science, geology and physical geography, and atmospheric science) to the study of the environment, and the solution of environmental problems.
See Astrobiology and Environmental science
Epistemology
Epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge.
See Astrobiology and Epistemology
Ethics
Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena.
Europa (moon)
Europa, or Jupiter II, is the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter, and the sixth-closest to the planet of all the 95 known moons of Jupiter.
See Astrobiology and Europa (moon)
Europa Clipper
Europa Clipper (previously known as Europa Multiple Flyby Mission) is a space probe in development by NASA.
See Astrobiology and Europa Clipper
European Space Agency
The European Space Agency (ESA) is a 22-member intergovernmental body devoted to space exploration.
See Astrobiology and European Space Agency
ExoMars
ExoMars (Exobiology on Mars) is an astrobiology programme of the European Space Agency (ESA).
Exoplanet
An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside the Solar System.
See Astrobiology and Exoplanet
Explorer of Enceladus and Titan
Explorer of Enceladus and Titan (E2T) is a space mission concept that would investigate the evolution and habitability of the Saturnian satellites Enceladus and Titan and is proposed by the European Space Agency in collaboration with NASA.
See Astrobiology and Explorer of Enceladus and Titan
EXPOSE
EXPOSE is a multi-user facility mounted outside the International Space Station (ISS) dedicated to astrobiology.
Extraterrestrial life
Extraterrestrial life, alien life, or colloquially simply aliens, is life which does not originate from Earth.
See Astrobiology and Extraterrestrial life
Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth (also known as Extraterrestrial) is a popular science book written by American theoretical physicist and Harvard University astronomer Avi Loeb, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on 26 January 2021.
See Astrobiology and Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
Extremophile
An extremophile is an organism that is able to live (or in some cases thrive) in extreme environments, i.e., environments with conditions approaching or stretching the limits of what known life can adapt to, such as extreme temperature, pressure, radiation, salinity, or pH level.
See Astrobiology and Extremophile
Fermi paradox
The Fermi paradox is the discrepancy between the lack of conclusive evidence of advanced extraterrestrial life and the apparently high likelihood of its existence.
See Astrobiology and Fermi paradox
Fine-tuning
Fine-tuning may refer to.
See Astrobiology and Fine-tuning
Food chain
A food chain is a linear network of links in a food web, often starting with an autotroph (such as grass or algae), also called a producer, and typically ending at an apex predator (such as grizzly bears or killer whales), detritivore (such as earthworms and woodlice), or decomposer (such as fungi or bacteria).
See Astrobiology and Food chain
Fox News
The Fox News Channel (FNC), commonly known as Fox News, is an American multinational conservative news and political commentary television channel and website based in New York City.
Frank Drake
Frank Donald Drake (May 28, 1930 – September 2, 2022) was an American astrophysicist and astrobiologist.
See Astrobiology and Frank Drake
Fringe science
Fringe science refers to ideas whose attributes include being highly speculative or relying on premises already refuted.
See Astrobiology and Fringe science
Galápagos hotspot
The Galápagos hotspot is a volcanic hotspot in the East Pacific Ocean responsible for the creation of the Galápagos Islands as well as three major aseismic ridge systems, Carnegie, Cocos and Malpelo which are on two tectonic plates.
See Astrobiology and Galápagos hotspot
Gale (crater)
Gale is a crater, and probable dry lake, at in the northwestern part of the Aeolis quadrangle on Mars.
See Astrobiology and Gale (crater)
Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov
Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov (Гавриил Адрианович Тихов, 1 May 1875 – 25 January 1960) was a Soviet astronomer who was a pioneer in astrobiology and is considered to be the father of astrobotany.
See Astrobiology and Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov
Geobiology
Geobiology is a field of scientific research that explores the interactions between the physical Earth and the biosphere. Astrobiology and Geobiology are branches of biology.
See Astrobiology and Geobiology
Geology of Mars
The geology of Mars is the scientific study of the surface, crust, and interior of the planet Mars.
See Astrobiology and Geology of Mars
Gravitational microlensing
Gravitational microlensing is an astronomical phenomenon caused by the gravitational lens effect.
See Astrobiology and Gravitational microlensing
Habitability of red dwarf systems
The theorized habitability of red dwarf systems is determined by a large number of factors.
See Astrobiology and Habitability of red dwarf systems
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is an American publisher of textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, and reference works.
See Astrobiology and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Human mission to Mars
The idea of sending humans to Mars has been the subject of aerospace engineering and scientific studies since the late 1940s as part of the broader exploration of Mars.
See Astrobiology and Human mission to Mars
Hydrogen
Hydrogen is a chemical element; it has symbol H and atomic number 1.
Hydrogen sulfide
Hydrogen sulfide is a chemical compound with the formula.
See Astrobiology and Hydrogen sulfide
Hydrogenation
Hydrogenation is a chemical reaction between molecular hydrogen (H2) and another compound or element, usually in the presence of a catalyst such as nickel, palladium or platinum.
See Astrobiology and Hydrogenation
Hydrothermal vent
Hydrothermal vents are fissures on the seabed from which geothermally heated water discharges.
See Astrobiology and Hydrothermal vent
Hydroxylation
In chemistry, hydroxylation can refer to.
See Astrobiology and Hydroxylation
Hypothesis
A hypothesis (hypotheses) is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon.
See Astrobiology and Hypothesis
Hypothetical types of biochemistry
Hypothetical types of biochemistry are forms of biochemistry agreed to be scientifically viable but not proven to exist at this time.
See Astrobiology and Hypothetical types of biochemistry
Hypoxia (environmental)
Hypoxia (hypo: "below", oxia: "oxygenated") refers to low oxygen conditions.
See Astrobiology and Hypoxia (environmental)
Icebreaker Life
Icebreaker Life is a Mars lander mission concept proposed to NASA's Discovery Program.
See Astrobiology and Icebreaker Life
Inorganic chemistry
Inorganic chemistry deals with synthesis and behavior of inorganic and organometallic compounds.
See Astrobiology and Inorganic chemistry
Intelligence
Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving.
See Astrobiology and Intelligence
International Journal of Astrobiology
The International Journal of Astrobiology (IJA) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 2002 and published by Cambridge University Press that covers research on the prebiotic chemistry, origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life on Earth and beyond, SETI (Search for extraterrestrial intelligence), societal and educational aspects of astrobiology.
See Astrobiology and International Journal of Astrobiology
International Space Station
The International Space Station (ISS) is a large space station assembled and maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), ESA (Europe), JAXA (Japan), and CSA (Canada).
See Astrobiology and International Space Station
Interplanetary contamination
Interplanetary contamination refers to biological contamination of a planetary body by a space probe or spacecraft, either deliberate or unintentional.
See Astrobiology and Interplanetary contamination
Interstellar medium
The interstellar medium (ISM) is the matter and radiation that exists in the space between the star systems in a galaxy.
See Astrobiology and Interstellar medium
J. B. S. Haldane
John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (5 November 18921 December 1964), nicknamed "Jack" or "JBS", was a British-Indian scientist who worked in physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and mathematics.
See Astrobiology and J. B. S. Haldane
James Webb Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a space telescope designed to conduct infrared astronomy.
See Astrobiology and James Webb Space Telescope
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) in La Cañada Flintridge, California, Crescenta Valley, United States.
See Astrobiology and Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jezero (crater)
Jezero is a crater on Mars in the Syrtis Major quadrangle, about in diameter.
See Astrobiology and Jezero (crater)
Joshua Lederberg
Joshua Lederberg, ForMemRS (May 23, 1925 – February 2, 2008) was an American molecular biologist known for his work in microbial genetics, artificial intelligence, and the United States space program.
See Astrobiology and Joshua Lederberg
Journal of Cosmology
The Journal of Cosmology is a website that describes itself as a "scientific journal".
See Astrobiology and Journal of Cosmology
Journey to Enceladus and Titan
Journey to Enceladus and Titan (JET) is an astrobiology mission concept to assess the habitability potential of Enceladus and Titan, moons of Saturn.
See Astrobiology and Journey to Enceladus and Titan
Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.
Kepler space telescope
The Kepler space telescope is a defunct space telescope launched by NASA in 2009 to discover Earth-sized planets orbiting other stars.
See Astrobiology and Kepler space telescope
Lander (spacecraft)
A lander is a spacecraft that descends towards, then comes to rest on the surface of an astronomical body other than Earth.
See Astrobiology and Lander (spacecraft)
Life
Life is a quality that distinguishes matter that has biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from matter that does not.
Life Investigation For Enceladus
Life Investigation For Enceladus (LIFE) was a proposed astrobiology mission concept that would capture icy particles from Saturn's moon Enceladus and return them to Earth, where they could be studied in detail for signs of life such as biomolecules.
See Astrobiology and Life Investigation For Enceladus
Life on Mars
The possibility of life on Mars is a subject of interest in astrobiology due to the planet's proximity and similarities to Earth.
See Astrobiology and Life on Mars
Light-year
A light-year, alternatively spelled light year (ly or lyr), is a unit of length used to express astronomical distances and is equal to exactly 9,460,730,472,580.8 km (Scientific notation: 9.4607304725808 × 1012 km), which is approximately 5.88 trillion mi.
See Astrobiology and Light-year
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of language.
See Astrobiology and Linguistics
List of interstellar and circumstellar molecules
This is a list of molecules that have been detected in the interstellar medium and circumstellar envelopes, grouped by the number of component atoms.
See Astrobiology and List of interstellar and circumstellar molecules
List of life sciences
This list of life sciences comprises the branches of science that involve the scientific study of life – such as microorganisms, plants, and animals including human beings.
See Astrobiology and List of life sciences
Low Earth orbit
A low Earth orbit (LEO) is an orbit around Earth with a period of 128 minutes or less (making at least 11.25 orbits per day) and an eccentricity less than 0.25.
See Astrobiology and Low Earth orbit
Mainstream media
In journalism, mainstream media (MSM) is a term and abbreviation used to refer collectively to the various large mass news media that influence many people and both reflect and shape prevailing currents of thought.
See Astrobiology and Mainstream media
Marine snow
In the deep ocean, marine snow (also known as "ocean dandruff") is a continuous shower of mostly organic detritus falling from the upper layers of the water column.
See Astrobiology and Marine snow
Mariner program
The Mariner program was conducted by the American space agency NASA to explore other planets.
See Astrobiology and Mariner program
Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun.
Mars 2020
Mars 2020 is a NASA mission that includes the rover Perseverance, the now-retired small robotic helicopter Ingenuity, and associated delivery systems, as part of the Mars Exploration Program.
See Astrobiology and Mars 2020
Mars Express
Mars Express is a space exploration mission being conducted by the European Space Agency (ESA).
See Astrobiology and Mars Express
Mars Science Laboratory
Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) is a robotic space probe mission to Mars launched by NASA on November 26, 2011, which successfully landed Curiosity, a Mars rover, in Gale Crater on August 6, 2012.
See Astrobiology and Mars Science Laboratory
Marshall Space Flight Center
The George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), located in Redstone Arsenal, Alabama (Huntsville postal address), is the U.S. government's civilian rocketry and spacecraft propulsion research center.
See Astrobiology and Marshall Space Flight Center
Martian spherules
Martian spherules (also known as hematite spherules, blueberries, & Martian blueberries) are small spherules (roughly spherical pebbles) that are rich in an iron oxide (grey hematite, α-Fe2O3) and are found at Meridiani Planum (a large plain on Mars) in exceedingly large numbers.
See Astrobiology and Martian spherules
Mary Ann Liebert
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. is a privately held independent publishing company founded by its president, Mary Ann Liebert, in 1980.
See Astrobiology and Mary Ann Liebert
Mediocrity principle
The mediocrity principle is the philosophical notion that "if an item is drawn at random from one of several sets or categories, it's more likely to come from the most numerous category than from any one of the less numerous categories".
See Astrobiology and Mediocrity principle
Metabolism
Metabolism (from μεταβολή metabolē, "change") is the set of life-sustaining chemical reactions in organisms.
See Astrobiology and Metabolism
Metaphysics
Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that examines the basic structure of reality.
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Meteorite
A meteorite is a rock that originated in outer space and has fallen to the surface of a planet or moon.
See Astrobiology and Meteorite
Moons of Saturn
The moons of Saturn are numerous and diverse, ranging from tiny moonlets only tens of meters across to the enormous Titan, which is larger than the planet Mercury.
See Astrobiology and Moons of Saturn
Mussel
Mussel is the common name used for members of several families of bivalve molluscs, from saltwater and freshwater habitats.
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
Nature (journal)
Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.
See Astrobiology and Nature (journal)
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson (or; born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator.
See Astrobiology and Neil deGrasse Tyson
New Frontiers program
The New Frontiers program is a series of space exploration missions being conducted by NASA with the purpose of furthering the understanding of the Solar System.
See Astrobiology and New Frontiers program
Norman Horowitz
Norman Harold Horowitz (March 19, 1915 – June 1, 2005) was a geneticist at Caltech who achieved national fame as the scientist who devised experiments to determine whether life might exist on Mars.
See Astrobiology and Norman Horowitz
Nucleotide
Nucleotides are organic molecules composed of a nitrogenous base, a pentose sugar and a phosphate.
See Astrobiology and Nucleotide
Oceanus (Titan orbiter)
Oceanus is a NASA/JPL orbiter mission concept proposed in 2017 for the New Frontiers mission #4, but it was not selected for development.
See Astrobiology and Oceanus (Titan orbiter)
OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb
OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb (known sometimes as Hoth by NASA) is a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting OGLE-2005-BLG-390L, a star from Earth near the center of the Milky Way, making it one of the most distant planets known.
See Astrobiology and OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb
Organic chemistry
Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline within chemistry involving the scientific study of the structure, properties, and reactions of organic compounds and organic materials, i.e., matter in its various forms that contain carbon atoms.
See Astrobiology and Organic chemistry
Organic compound
Some chemical authorities define an organic compound as a chemical compound that contains a carbon–hydrogen or carbon–carbon bond; others consider an organic compound to be any chemical compound that contains carbon.
See Astrobiology and Organic compound
Outer space
Outer space (or simply space) is the expanse that exists beyond Earth's atmosphere and between celestial bodies.
See Astrobiology and Outer space
Oxidizing agent
An oxidizing agent (also known as an oxidant, oxidizer, electron recipient, or electron acceptor) is a substance in a redox chemical reaction that gains or "accepts"/"receives" an electron from a (called the,, or). In other words, an oxidizer is any substance that oxidizes another substance.
See Astrobiology and Oxidizing agent
PAH world hypothesis
The PAH world hypothesis is a speculative hypothesis that proposes that polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), known to be abundant in the universe, including in comets, and assumed to be abundant in the primordial soup of the early Earth, played a major role in the origin of life by mediating the synthesis of RNA molecules, leading into the RNA world. Astrobiology and PAH world hypothesis are origin of life.
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Paleobiology
Paleobiology (or palaeobiology) is an interdisciplinary field that combines the methods and findings found in both the earth sciences and the life sciences. Astrobiology and Paleobiology are branches of biology.
See Astrobiology and Paleobiology
Panspermia
Panspermia is the hypothesis that life exists throughout the Universe, distributed by space dust, meteoroids, asteroids, comets, and planetoids, as well as by spacecraft carrying unintended contamination by microorganisms,Forward planetary contamination like Tersicoccus phoenicis, that has shown resistance to methods usually used in spacecraft assembly clean rooms: known as directed panspermia. Astrobiology and panspermia are origin of life.
See Astrobiology and Panspermia
Perseverance (rover)
Perseverance, nicknamed Percy, is a car-sized Mars rover designed to explore the Jezero crater on Mars as part of NASA's Mars 2020 mission.
See Astrobiology and Perseverance (rover)
Philosophy
Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.
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Philosophy of mind
The philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of the mind and its relation to the body and the external world.
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Phoenix (spacecraft)
Phoenix was an uncrewed space probe that landed on the surface of Mars on May 25, 2008, and operated until November 2, 2008.
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Photosynthesis
Photosynthesis is a system of biological processes by which photosynthetic organisms, such as most plants, algae, and cyanobacteria, convert light energy, typically from sunlight, into the chemical energy necessary to fuel their metabolism.
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Planetary habitability
Planetary habitability is the measure of a planet's or a natural satellite's potential to develop and maintain environments hospitable to life.
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Planetary science
Planetary science (or more rarely, planetology) is the scientific study of planets (including Earth), celestial bodies (such as moons, asteroids, comets) and planetary systems (in particular those of the Solar System) and the processes of their formation. Astrobiology and planetary science are astronomical sub-disciplines.
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Planetary system
A planetary system is a set of gravitationally bound non-stellar objects in or out of orbit around a star or star system.
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Politics
Politics is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status.
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon
A polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) is a class of organic compounds that is composed of multiple aromatic rings. Astrobiology and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon are origin of life.
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Proceedings of SPIE
Proceedings of SPIE is the conference record of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE).
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (often abbreviated PNAS or PNAS USA) is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal.
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Project Cyclops
Project Cyclops is a 1971 NASA project that investigated how the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) should be conducted.
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Project Hail Mary
Project Hail Mary is a 2021 science fiction novel by American novelist Andy Weir.
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Protein
Proteins are large biomolecules and macromolecules that comprise one or more long chains of amino acid residues.
Protocell
A protocell (or protobiont) is a self-organized, endogenously ordered, spherical collection of lipids proposed as a rudimentary precursor to cells during the origin of life. Astrobiology and protocell are origin of life.
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Pseudoscience
Pseudoscience consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that claim to be both scientific and factual but are incompatible with the scientific method.
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Radiation
In physics, radiation is the emission or transmission of energy in the form of waves or particles through space or a material medium.
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Red dwarf
A red dwarf is the smallest kind of star on the main sequence.
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Redox
Redox (reduction–oxidation or oxidation–reduction) is a type of chemical reaction in which the oxidation states of the reactants change.
Remote sensing
Remote sensing is the acquisition of information about an object or phenomenon without making physical contact with the object, in contrast to in situ or on-site observation.
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Rhizocarpon geographicum
Rhizocarpon geographicum (the map lichen) is a species of lichen, which grows on rocks in mountainous areas of low air pollution.
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Richard B. Hoover
Richard Brice Hoover (born January 3, 1943) is a physicist who has authored 33 volumes and 250 papers on astrobiology, extremophiles, diatoms, solar physics, X-ray/EUV optics and meteorites.
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Riftia
Riftia pachyptila, commonly known as the giant tube worm and less commonly known as the giant beardworm, is a marine invertebrate in the phylum Annelida (formerly grouped in phylum Pogonophora and Vestimentifera) related to tube worms commonly found in the intertidal and pelagic zones.
Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science fiction author, aeronautical engineer, and naval officer.
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Rocket propellant
Rocket propellant is the reaction mass of a rocket.
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Roscosmos
The State Corporation for Space Activities "Roscosmos" (Государственная корпорация по космической деятельности «Роскосмос»), commonly known simply as Roscosmos (Роскосмос), is a state corporation of the Russian Federation responsible for space flights, cosmonautics programs, and aerospace research.
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Rotorcraft
A rotorcraft or rotary-wing aircraft is a heavier-than-air aircraft with rotary wings or rotor blades, which generate lift by rotating around a vertical mast.
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Rover (space exploration)
A rover (or sometimes planetary rover) is a planetary surface exploration device designed to move over the rough surface of a planet or other planetary mass celestial bodies.
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Rusavskia elegans
Rusavskia elegans (formerly Xanthoria elegans), commonly known as the elegant sunburst lichen, is a lichenized species of fungus in the genus Rusavskia, family Teloschistaceae.
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Saccharomyces cerevisiae (brewer's yeast or baker's yeast) is a species of yeast (single-celled fungal microorganisms).
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Saturn
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter.
Science
Science is a strict systematic discipline that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the world.
ScienceDaily
ScienceDaily is an American website launched in 1995 that aggregates press releases and publishes lightly edited press releases (a practice called churnalism) about science, similar to Phys.org and EurekAlert!.
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Search for extraterrestrial intelligence
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a collective term for scientific searches for intelligent extraterrestrial life, for example, monitoring electromagnetic radiation for signs of transmissions from civilizations on other planets.
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Self-replication
Self-replication is any behavior of a dynamical system that yields construction of an identical or similar copy of itself.
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Solar System
The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
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Space Age
The Space Age is a period encompassing the activities related to the space race, space exploration, space technology, and the cultural developments influenced by these events, beginning with the launch of Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, and continuing to the present.
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Space exploration
Space exploration is the use of astronomy and space technology to explore outer space.
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Space.com
Space.com is an online publication focused on space exploration, astronomy, skywatching and entertainment, with editorial teams based in the United States and United Kingdom.
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Spaceflight
Spaceflight (or space flight) is an application of astronautics to fly objects, usually spacecraft, into or through outer space, either with or without humans on board.
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Spectroscopy
Spectroscopy is the field of study that measures and interprets electromagnetic spectra.
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Sputnik 1
Sputnik 1 (Спутник-1, Satellite 1) was the first artificial Earth satellite.
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Star
A star is a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by self-gravity.
Star formation
Star formation is the process by which dense regions within molecular clouds in interstellar space, sometimes referred to as "stellar nurseries" or "star-forming regions", collapse and form stars.
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Stephen Hawking
Stephen William Hawking, (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge.
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Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.
Sunlight
Sunlight is a portion of the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun, in particular infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light.
Tanpopo mission
The Tanpopo mission is an orbital astrobiology experiment investigating the potential interplanetary transfer of life, organic compounds, and possible terrestrial particles in the low Earth orbit. Astrobiology and Tanpopo mission are origin of life.
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Tardigrade
Tardigrades, known colloquially as water bears or moss piglets, are a phylum of eight-legged segmented micro-animals.
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Temperature
Temperature is a physical quantity that quantitatively expresses the attribute of hotness or coldness.
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Terrestrial Planet Finder
The Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) was a proposed project by NASA to construct a system of space telescopes for detecting extrasolar terrestrial planets.
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The Astrophysical Journal
The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of astrophysics and astronomy, established in 1895 by American astronomers George Ellery Hale and James Edward Keeler.
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The Living Cosmos
The Living Cosmos: Our Search for Life in the Universe is a non-fiction book by the astronomer Chris Impey that discusses the subject of astrobiology and efforts to discover life beyond Earth.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Star Beast (novel)
The Star Beast is a 1954 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a high school senior who discovers that his extraterrestrial pet is more than it appears to be.
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Tidal locking
Tidal locking between a pair of co-orbiting astronomical bodies occurs when one of the objects reaches a state where there is no longer any net change in its rotation rate over the course of a complete orbit.
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Titan (moon)
Titan is the largest moon of Saturn and the second-largest in the Solar System.
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Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a space telescope for NASA's Explorer program, designed to search for exoplanets using the transit method in an area 400 times larger than that covered by the Kepler mission.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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Universe
The universe is all of space and time and their contents.
Universe Today
Universe Today (U.T.) is a North American-based non-commercial space and astronomy news website.
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Viking 1
Viking 1 was the first of two spacecraft, along with Viking 2, each consisting of an orbiter and a lander, sent to Mars as part of NASA's Viking program.
Viking 2
The Viking 2 mission was part of the American Viking program to Mars, and consisted of an orbiter and a lander essentially identical to that of the Viking 1 mission.
Viking lander biological experiments
In 1976 two identical Viking program landers each carried four types of biological experiments to the surface of Mars.
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Viking program
The Viking program consisted of a pair of identical American space probes, Viking 1 and Viking 2, which landed on Mars in 1976.
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Virus
A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism.
Water
Water is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula.
Water on Mars
Almost all water on Mars today exists as ice, though it also exists in small quantities as vapor in the atmosphere.
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Xenobiology
Xenobiology (XB) is a subfield of synthetic biology, the study of synthesizing and manipulating biological devices and systems.
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Yamato 000593
Yamato 000593 (or Y000593) is the second largest meteorite from Mars found on Earth.
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See also
Astronomical sub-disciplines
- Archaeoastronomy
- Astrobiology
- Astrochemistry
- Astrometry
- Astrophysics
- Celestial mechanics
- Cultural astronomy
- Extragalactic astronomy
- Forensic astronomy
- Galactic astronomy
- Gamma-ray astronomy
- Geodetic astronomy
- Gravitational-wave astronomy
- Historical astronomy
- Multi-messenger astronomy
- Neutrino astronomy
- Observational astronomy
- Physical cosmology
- Planetary science
- Radio astronomy
- Stellar astronomy
- Theoretical astronomy
- Ultraviolet astronomy
- X-ray astronomy
Speculative evolution
- After Man
- Alien Planet
- Alien Worlds (TV series)
- All Tomorrows
- All Yesterdays
- Astrobiology
- Dinosauroid
- Dragon's Egg
- Evolution (Baxter novel)
- Expedition (book)
- Extraterrestrial (TV program)
- Flanimals
- Fragment (novel)
- Future Evolution
- Future predator
- Galápagos (novel)
- Greenworld
- Last and First Men
- Living Fossil (short story)
- Man After Man
- Mermaids: The Body Found
- Mystery Flesh Pit National Park
- Natural History of an Alien
- Orion's Arm
- Pseudo-panspermia
- Quintaglio Ascension Trilogy
- Rhinogradentia
- Rolling and wheeled creatures in fiction and legend
- Rotating locomotion in living systems
- Snaiad
- Son of Man (novel)
- Speculative evolution
- The First Men in the Moon
- The Flight of Dragons (book)
- The Future Is Wild
- The Last Dragon (2004 film)
- The New Dinosaurs
- The Planiverse
- The World of Kong
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