Funding Astrobiology Challenges Can Bring Us Closer To Understanding the Origins of Life

Astrobiology can be split into two very distinct fields. There's the field that astronomers are likely more familiar with, involving large telescopes, exoplanets, and spectroscopic signals that are pored over to debate whether they show signs of life. But there is another camp, collective known as the Origins researchers that focus on developing a scientific understanding of how life originally developed on Earth. A new paper from Cole Mathis at Arizona State and Harrison B. Smith at the Institu...