- exobiology: the branch of biology concerned with the effects of outer space on living organisms and the search for extraterrestrial life
- Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe. Earth is the only known inhabited planet in the universe to date. ...
- is the science that tries to answer questions like: how do living organism originate? Is there life out in space, and what form does it have? What is the future for life on Earth and beyond?
- The study of life that potentially exists on planets or celestial bodies other than Earth.
- term coined by Rene Bertholot, meaning the intimate parallelism between mathematically expressible regions of the heavens and biologically determined rhythms of life on earth; the Divine was “itself the natural course of the world,” (Walter Otto) not an interruption or abolition of it.