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Until then, the bulk of NASA’s astrobiology funding had focused on Mars—a world that is almost certainly sterile today (at least on the surface), but which may have hosted life some 3 to 4 billion years ago in its warmer, wetter past.
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Nadia Drake, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2024
Its successful survival in space has had profound implications for astrobiology and the study of life beyond Earth, raising questions about the potential for life to exist in similarly extreme environments elsewhere in the universe.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
The origins of life Not knowing how life originated on our own planet is a major showstopper for astrobiology.
—Big Think, 17 June 2024
As the Venus phosphine saga moved toward a climax in 2021, NASA administrators and scientists implored the astrobiology community to establish firm standards for certainty in biosignature detection.
—Elise Cutts, WIRED, 7 Apr. 2024
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Nadia Drake, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2024
Its successful survival in space has had profound implications for astrobiology and the study of life beyond Earth, raising questions about the potential for life to exist in similarly extreme environments elsewhere in the universe.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
The origins of life Not knowing how life originated on our own planet is a major showstopper for astrobiology.
—Big Think, 17 June 2024
As the Venus phosphine saga moved toward a climax in 2021, NASA administrators and scientists implored the astrobiology community to establish firm standards for certainty in biosignature detection.
—Elise Cutts, WIRED, 7 Apr. 2024
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“Astrobiology.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/astrobiology. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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