Draft:Outline of astrobiology
Science concerned with life in the universe
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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.[2] As a discipline, astrobiology is founded on the premise that life may exist beyond Earth.[3]
Contributory fields
Astrobiology makes use of the following fields:
- Astronomy – The general study of celestial objects. Astrobiology is a field within astronomy.
- Biology – The general study of life. Astrobiology is a field within biology.
- Chemistry – The study of the various qualities possessed by matter. This is important to astrobiology in that studying the nature of matter also includes studying that of biological matter.
- Ecology
- Geography
- Geology
- Molecular biology
- Physics
- Planetary science
History of astrobiology
- History of astrobiology
Concepts in astrobiology
General concepts
Specific phenomena and theories
- 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
