Astrobiology:
The Potential for Extraterrestrial Life
Michael Russo
Professor Nieter
Science Inquiry: Geoscience
Introduction
Astrobiology is the area of study dealing with alien life, the likelihood of finding it, where it might be found, how it evolved, its morphology, its culture, etc. It's a huge field that overlaps all the sciences but especially the geosciences, evolutionary biology, chemistry and bio-chemistry and astronomy. In the following report I focus on astrobiology as it applies to geology, or what kinds of planets, stars and solar systems are the most likely to play host to life in some form or another.
Basic Assumptions
Earth is the only planet in the universe we know supports life and the life indigenous to Earth is the only life we know of in the universe. Although it is possible, and in fact likely when considering the size of the universe, that life exists in forms that we can not at this point conceive of, we are limited in this field by what we......
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