Week one of the University of Edinburgh's "Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life" (ASTROBIO) open online course.

Prof Charles Cockell
School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Edinburgh

Licence: CC-BY-NC
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1. Introduction to the Course
2. Introduction: What is Astrobiology?
3. History of Astrobiology
4. What is Life?
5. Life on Earth
6. The Structure of Life: Building Blocks
7. The Structure of Life: Cells
8. Origin of Life: Building Blocks
9. Origin of Life: Location
10. Origin of Life: Alternative Chemistries
11. Formation of the Solar System: The Early Earth
12. Conditions on the early Earth
13. Evidence of Early life on Earth
14. The Tree of Life
15. Formation of the Solar System
16. The Rise of Multicellularity
17. The Great Oxidation Event
18. What makes a Planet Habitable?
19. The Search for Life on Mars
20. Mars as a Location for Life
21. Could We Be Martians?
22. Europa - Life in the Cold?
23. Enceladus - Life in the Cold?
24. Other icy bodies
25. The Search for Exoplanets: Methods
26. The Search for Exoplanets: Types of Planets
27. Biosignatures of Life in Exoplanet Atmospheres
28. How to look for Biosignatures
29. Missions to find Biosignatures
30. Is there anybody out there?
31. Contacting Extraterrestrial Civilisations
32. How do we look for extraterrestrial intelligences?
33. Extraterrestrial Intelligence: The Social Dimension

Learn about the origin and evolution of life and the search for life beyond the Earth with Prof. Charles Cockell.