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• n  the branch of biology concerned with the effects of outer space on living organisms and the search for extraterrestrial life

• But Cornell University Astronomer Carl Sagan, exobiology's most energetic and articulate spokesman, was less easily discouraged.
• At last week's international space conference at Nice, France, the hottest subject was "exobiology," a newly coined word for the study of life that may exist beyond the earth.
• Cady is one of the leading lights in a brightening field known as astro- or exobiologythe study of how life could form elsewhere in the universe.

• space biology
• astrobiology

News & Articles

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• ROSES-14 Amendment 8: Change in due dates for C.15, Planetary Protection Research
  Planetary protection involves preventing biological contamination on both outbound and sample return missions to other planetary bodies. Numerous areas of research in astrobiology/exobiology are improving our understanding of the potential for survival of Earth microbes in extraterrestrial environments, relevant to preventing contamination of other bodies by organisms carried on spacecraft.
  March 19, 2014 - SpaceRef