Science, Maths & Technology
Exploring the icy moons
...Open University, what does astrobiology mean to you? There’s a tendency to see astrobiology as ‘the search for life’. But that's not how I see it. ‘Searching for life’ implies that astrobiology’s goal is finding life. And if we don't find it, then we've failed. But for me, the goal is to try to understand life in its cosmic context; to understand how common or...