extraterrestrial biology

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• extraterrestrial life — Introduction   life that may exist or may have existed in the universe outside of Earth. The search for extraterrestrial life encompasses many fundamental scientific questions. What are the basic requirements for life? Could life have arisen… …   Universalium

• Extraterrestrial life — For fiction, see Extraterrestrials in fiction. For other uses, see Alien (disambiguation). A 1967 Soviet Union 16 kopeks postage stamp, depicting a satellite from an imagined extraterrestrial civilization …   Wikipedia

• Search for extraterrestrial intelligence — The search for extraterrestrial intelligence is sometimes abbreviated as SETI. For other uses, see SETI (disambiguation). Screen shot of the screensaver for SETI@home, a distributed computing project in which volunteers donate idle computer power …   Wikipedia

• Alternative biology — is the study of theoretical or non traditional life forms such as acellular life, non carbon based life, extraterrestrial life, cyborg life, or artificial life.It also considers the earliest theoretical forms of life on Earth, such as RNA life or …   Wikipedia

• space biology — noun the branch of biology concerned with the effects of outer space on living organisms and the search for extraterrestrial life • Syn: ↑exobiology, ↑astrobiology • Hypernyms: ↑biology, ↑biological science * * * exobiology. [1955 60] …   Useful english dictionary

• Charles W. Gehrke — (18 July 1917 in New York City, New York – 10 February 2009 in Columbia, Missouri) was an American chemist, researcher and business entrepreneur. Biography and career Gehrke was born in New York City to a German immigrant mother (Louise Mader… …   Wikipedia

• Blindsight (science fiction novel) — Infobox Book | name = Blindsight title orig = translator = image caption = author = Peter Watts cover artist = country = United States language = English series = genre = Science fiction novel publisher = Tor Books release date = 3 October 2006… …   Wikipedia

• Abiogenesis — Primordial soup redirects here. For the board game, see Primordial Soup (board game). Origin of life redirects here. For views on the origins of life outside the natural sciences, see Creation myth. Pre Cambrian stromatolites in the Siyeh… …   Wikipedia

• Hypothetical types of biochemistry — are forms of biochemistry speculated to be scientifically viable but not proven to exist at this time. While the kinds of living beings we know on earth commonly use carbon for basic structural and metabolic functions, water as a solvent and DNA… …   Wikipedia

• Life — For other uses, see Life (disambiguation). Life (Biota / Vitae / Eobionti) …   Wikipedia

• Astrobiology — (from Greek gr. ἄστρον, astron , constellation, star ; gr. βίος, bios , life ; and gr. λογία, logia ) is the interdisciplinary study of life in the Universe, combining aspects of astronomy, biology and geology. [http://astrobiology.arc.nasa.gov/… …   Wikipedia