How to Use astrobiology in a Sentence

astrobiology

noun

• This paved the way for astrobiology, the study of life in all its forms on this planet and elsewhere in the universe.
  — Brianne Palmer, Scientific American, 21 July 2021
• The search for life on other planets is part of the science of astrobiology.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Apr. 2021
• This field of astrobiology is a field of people who think about life on other planets.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 8 July 2019
• Take Europa, one of Jupiter’s largest moons, which is a prime target for astrobiology.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 8 Apr. 2022
• In astrobiology, appeals to complexity have been on the rise for a while now.
  — Natalie Elliot, Scientific American, 23 Nov. 2021
• The space agency has long been tasked with finding life elsewhere, which is why astrobiology programs are part of its focus.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 24 Oct. 2022
• The boundary between mainstream astrobiology and the fringe is the idea that extraterrestrials have crossed the abyss of space to come see us — and that the governments of the world have somehow kept the evidence a secret.
  — Seth Fletcher, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
• But if astrobiology has revealed that Earth is honeycombed with life, the opposite seems true of Mars.
  — Marissa Grunes, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2023
• How life becomes life at all is perhaps the most central question of astrobiology.
  — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2023
• There’s more reason to believe the astrobiology push is a permanent fixture of NASA’s vision for its future.
  — Neel V. Patel, Slate Magazine, 21 Dec. 2017
• The field of astrobiology re-enacts this Life versus the living problematic on a cosmic scale.
  — WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
• For decades, scientists have searched for alien life-forms—but the field of astrobiology has only recently become mainstream science.
  — National Geographic, 30 July 2020
• This study of Mars is part of the efflorescence of the young field of astrobiology, which includes the search for potentially habitable worlds and the first example of extraterrestrial life.
  — Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2022
• Most of my work in astrobiology looks at anaerobic environments, which have a lot in common with the environments that produce farts.
  — Eric Spitznagel, Popular Mechanics, 25 Nov. 2019
• But so was astrobiology—and now space science is consumed by the interplanetary and even interstellar search for alien life.
  — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 18 Nov. 2021
• Titan’s atmospheric chemistry resembles that of an early Earth, which makes the moon an exciting target in the field of astrobiology.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 28 July 2017
• About a year ago, the National Academies met to prioritize planetary science, astrobiology, and planetary defense missions in the next 10 years, and Uranus topped the list.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 5 May 2023
• Last semester, 25 students took Guinan's class on astrobiology, about the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe.
  — Author: Kenneth Chang, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Jan. 2018
• Last semester, 25 students took Dr. Guinan’s class on astrobiology, about the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2018
• Charles Cockell is a professor of astrobiology at the University of Edinburgh who’s written at length about the question of freedom in space settlements.
  — Clive Thompson, The New Republic, 3 Dec. 2020
• First and foremost, Knoll’s new book views earth’s history from a geological perspective which sets it apart from the raft of recent astrobiology histories of Earth and earthlike planets in the cosmos.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
• Researchers are hoping for another mission focused on astrobiology that would probe and measure the chemical compounds on Enceladus and its ocean.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 July 2021
• What is most exciting to you about the recent discoveries in astrobiology?
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 26 Jan. 2011
• The 22-year-old just graduated Wellesley College with degrees in astrobiology and Russian.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 13 July 2019
• Australia has surfing, sharks, and, most importantly for astrobiology, stromatolites that date back to 3.5 billion years ago.
  — Sarah Scoles, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2014
• As for rewards, the development of a technosignatures discipline might mirror that of astrobiology, which arose 25 years ago in response to the discovery of exoplanets.
  — Jon Gertner, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2022
• In contrast to the Moon, the Red Planet is indeed of significant justifiable interest to astrobiology.
  — Robert Zubrin, National Review, 31 Aug. 2019
• These intrepid microbes were the final samples to be returned to Earth as part of the Tanpopo mission, a Japanese astrobiology experiment studying the effects of the space environment on simple organisms.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 26 Aug. 2020
• But these big, broad questions are also critical to astrobiology; all of these processes enable and regulate the habitability of a planet.
  — Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 18 Feb. 2021
• Scientists ultimately built the field of astrobiology on the groundwork of that equation, Diamond argues.
  — WIRED, 11 Sep. 2022

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