AT 250 - Astrobiology

Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Credit Hours: 3

A one semester course covering the evolution of stars and planets, protoplanetary environments, and habitable zones around stars. The course will also focus on potentially habitable regions in the solar system, characteristics of extrasolar planets, the search for microbial and intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe, and the origin and evolution of life on Earth.