Draft:Outline of astrobiology
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to astrobiology.
Astrobiology (also xenology or exobiology) is a scientific field within the life and environmental sciences that studies the origins, early evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe by investigating its deterministic conditions and contingent events. As a discipline, astrobiology is founded on the premise that life may exist beyond Earth.
Contributory fields
[edit]Astrobiology makes use of the following fields:
History of astrobiology
[edit]Concepts in astrobiology
[edit]General concepts
[edit]Specific phenomena and theories
[edit]- Aerial Regional-scale Environmental Survey
- Allan Hills 84001
- Arsenic biochemistry
- Astroecology
- Back-contamination
- Beagle 2
- Beagle 2: Evolution
- Biosignature
- Blood Falls
- Carbon chauvinism
- CHON
- Contact Conference
- Cosmic evolution
- Geysers on Mars
- ExoMars
- Forward-contamination
- GFAJ-1
- Gravitational biology
- Habitability of red dwarf systems
- Habitable moon
- Hypothetical types of biochemistry
- ISSOL
- Life on Mars
- Life form
- Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment
- Mars Astrobiology Explorer-Cacher
- Murchison meteorite
- Neocatastrophism
- Orgueil meteorite
- Panspermia
- Pavilion Lake
- Purple Earth hypothesis
- Rare Earth hypothesis
- Shadow biosphere
- Shergotty meteorite
- Speculative evolution
- Rio Tinto (river)
- Viking biological experiments
Astrobiology publications
[edit]Journals
[edit]- Astrobiology (journal)
- Life (journal)
- International Journal of Astrobiology
- Life Sciences in Space Research
Books and reports
[edit]Astrobiology organizations
[edit]- Astrobiology Field Laboratory
- Astrobiology Science and Technology for Exploring Planets
- Astrobiology Society of Britain
- Lunar Receiving Laboratory
- NASA Astrobiology Institute
- Spanish Astrobiology Center
Persons influential in astrobiology
[edit]- George E. Fox
- Antonio Lazcano
- David S. McKay
- David Morrison (astrophysicist)
- Caleb Scharf
- Janet Siefert
See also
[edit]- Search for extraterrestrial intelligence
- Anthropic principle
- Astrovirology
- Superhabitable planet
- Space ethics