Astrobiology
(not in technical use) exobiology.
noun
the branch of biology that investigates the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe
n.
1903, from french astrobiologie; see astro- + biology. related: astrobiological; astrobiologist.
astrobiology
(ās’trō-bī-ŏl’ə-jē)
see exobiology.
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