astrobiology

Curiosity, the space agency's first astrobiology mission since the 1970s-era Viking probes, is designed primarily to search for evidence that the planet most similar to Earth may have once have harbored ingredients necessary for microbial life to evolve.

好奇号是该机构自20世纪70年代维京号探测以来进行的首次天体生物学任务，其首要目的是探寻火星这颗与地球极为相似的星球是否曾蕴含可让微生物繁衍的必要元素。

The paper is published in this week's edition of the international journal Astrobiology.

这篇文章刊登在本周的《天体生物学》杂志上.

A few weeks before the European discovery earlier this month, a scientific paper in the journal Astrobiology theorized a few days that red dwarf stars were good candidates.

在这个月早些时候欧洲的发现之前数周，在《天体生物学》杂志一份科学报告几天时间内都在对红侏儒星是好的候选这一观点建立起理论。

And it kind of led me to astrobiology, which is the study of possible life in the universe.

于是我遇到了研究宇宙中可能存在的生命的天体生物学。

In astrobiology, the Goldilocks zone refers to the habitable zone around a star.

在天文学里，“金发姑娘地带”指的是一个星球周围的宜居地带。

Astrobiology's goal is to make sure that does not happen.

天体生物学的目标是保证那不发生.

"I was shocked that she responded," says Perry, who does not have an engineering background ( she studied Paleobiology and Astrobiology at Penn).

“她竟然给我回复了，我很吃惊，”毫无工程学背景的佩里表示，她在宾夕法尼亚大学学习的是古生物学和宇宙生物学。

The finding has powerful implications for the emerging field of astrobiology.

这一发现对刚出现的天文生物学来说意义深远.

Astrobiology is the ultimate study of life!

天体生物学是生命科学的终极研究！

For more information about NASA astrobiology activities, visit

如需美国宇航局天体生物学活动的信息，请访问

Not only in astronomy, but also in other sciences, like spaceflight, astrochemistry, astrobiology, even in philosophy, it plays an advance function.

它的研究也促进了航天学、宇宙化学、天文生物学乃至哲学等其他学科的发展。

In the late nineties, he helped launch the Astrobiology Institute at NASA.

在九十年代后期，他帮助美国航空航天局发射的天体生物学研究所。

Though once considered outside the mainstream of scientific inquiry, astrobiology has a formalized field of study.

虽然一度被视为非主流的科学问题, 但天体生物学已成为正式的研究领域.