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Understanding these adaptations could refine future astrobiology missions in the quest to find signs of life.
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Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
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Ten years ago, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe pulled up alongside a dusty, icy lump the size of a mountain.
—Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 13 Nov. 2024
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.
—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
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Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
Introduction astrobiology astronomy astrophysics chemistry complexity origins of life physics All topics
(opens a new tab)
Ten years ago, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe pulled up alongside a dusty, icy lump the size of a mountain.
—Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 13 Nov. 2024
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.
—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
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“Astrobiology.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/astrobiology. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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