Outline of extraterrestrial life
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to extraterrestrial life:
Extraterrestrial life – is any type of lifeform, from prokaryotes to intelligent beings, that is neither native of Earth or transplanted from it. So far, no extraterrestrial life has ever been found.[1]
Search[edit]
- Astrobiology
- Mars
- Meteorites
- Biosignatures
- Search for extraterrestrial intelligence
- Communication with extraterrestrial intelligence
Likely requirements[edit]
Potential locations[edit]
- Colonization of Europa
- Habitability of K-type main-sequence star systems
- Habitability of natural satellites
- Habitability of red dwarf systems
- Habitable exoplanet
- Life on Mars
- Life on Titan
- Life on Venus
- Catalogs
Possible traits[edit]
Ideas[edit]
- Anthropocentrism
- Carbon chauvinism
- Copernican principle
- Cosmic pluralism
- Drake equation
- Fermi paradox
- Fine-tuned universe
- Kardashev scale
- Mediocrity principle
- Potential cultural impact of extraterrestrial contact
Fringe and conspiracy theories[edit]
Extraterrestrial life media[edit]
Note: Only nonfiction works in this section
- Books
- Documentaries
Persons influential in extraterrestrial life[edit]
- Giordano Bruno
- Frank Drake
- Enrico Fermi
- Michael H. Hart
- Stephen Hawking
- Avi Loeb
- Carl Sagan
- Peter Ward
Extraterrestrial life in fiction[edit]
- Extraterrestrials in fiction
- List of fictional extraterrestrials
- Archetypes
- Plots
References[edit]
- ^ "Are we alone in the universe?". NASA. March 1, 2022. Retrieved July 12, 2022.
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