The Growing Need for Astrobiology

How was life created in the universe? Can other planets sustain life (or do they already?). Increasing space exploration could make this era the ‘time of the astrobiologists.’ These folks explore the origins, early evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe.

NASA Explains the Field

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/what-is-astrobiology

Watch "Ask An Astrobiologist: NASA's Dragonfly Mission to Titan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4Os67j7gNs&feature=youtu.be

Are We Alone in the Universe?

https://www.rutgers.edu/news/are-we-alone-universe-rutgers-professor-explores-possibility-life-mars-and-beyond

As a Career -One of the Hottest New College Majors… Exploring new worlds: U Illinois Alumna Kennda Lynch Creates a Career in Astrobiology

https://ise.illinois.edu/newsroom/article/kennda-lynch

https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/career-path-suggestions/

5 Incredible Breakthroughs in Astrobiology (And Why They Matter)

https://news.fit.edu/academics-research/5-incredible-breakthroughs-astrobiology/

The SETI Institute

https://www.seti.org/research/Astrobiology

Japan's Hayabusa2 mission delivers the first subsurface steroid samples to Earth

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/watch-japan-hayabusa2-mission-deliver-ryugu-asteroid-samples-earth-live-stream-today-2020-12-05/

How Hayabusa Gets it Done 

https://www.planetary.org/video/how-hayabusa2-will-return-samples-from-ryugu-to-earth

COMING UP SOON- Watch!!: A Rainbow of Exo Planets

https://www.seti.org/event/seti-talks-rainbow-exoplanets

 

Our Place in the Universe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3Sh9IjoPzQ

Grand Challenges: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe

STEM, STEAM, STEMX, STEMD and beyond..

ERC Grand Challenges: For project design, for inquiry, for activism.

Photo by Greg Rakozy on Unsplash

Photo by Greg Rakozy on Unsplash