Astrobiologists try to answer this type of questions.
But what is exactly astrobiology?
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Let’s start by simply answering the question: What’s astrobiology?
As it’s easy to imagine, Astrobiology is the study of life in the universe.
Do you think it is an easy task?
Well, I’m sorry to disappoint you, but life in the universe is actually one of the hardest things we can study.
But let’s go back for a moment to when the term Astrobiology was invented.
It was only in the 50s in the 1950s space-age that the term Astrobiology was coined.
It was used to define the study of the biological impact of space missions and to define the study of the search for extraterrestrial life.
Later, famous scientist Carl Sagan brought Astrobiology to the public and to the scientific community, and the field began to gain recognition.
So nowadays astrobiology is defined as the science that studies the origin, distribution and evolution of life in the universe, and it takes several branches of science: biology, geology, astronomy, physics, chemistry, but also engineering and sociology and together.
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Video Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:51 Astrobiology
07:20 Europa
08:06 Titan
08:59 Mars
09:42 Future of Astrobiology
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