Astrobiology
Searching for life’s universal blueprint
4.8 (23)
72 mins
Discover the field of astrobiology, the interdisciplinary science exploring life’s origins, evolution, and potential beyond Earth. Learn how from extremophiles on Earth to Martian lakebeds and distant exoplanets, modern research is combining biology, chemistry, geology, and astronomy to study habitability.
Ep 1:
Birth of a Cosmic Science
From a puzzled Secret Service agent to a full-blown discipline, discover how four 1990s breakthroughs—Martian fossils, extremophiles, Europa's ocean, and exoplanets—launched astrobiology.
Ep 2:
Defining Life, Finding Its Needs
What actually IS life, and what does it need to survive? We dig into thermodynamics, entropy, and a five-tier habitability scale ranking worlds from Earth to the Sun.
Discussions (10)
Trenton
Level 4 · 9 mo agoSuperhabitable idea slaps
Donald
Level 3 · 9 mo agoEntropy isn't disorder.
Quincy
Level 10 · 9 mo agoThe meteorite beef is just nerds swinging egos.
