Congress added
Astrobiology program as one of NASA’s ten formal objectives in 2017. Astrobiology focuses on three big questions: How does life begin and evolve? Does life exist elsewhere in the Universe? What is the future of life on Earth and beyond?
The mission of the COOL Team is to understand life, here and beyond. We seek to understand the synthesis and function of macromolecules in the origin of life, how early life increased in complexity, and how life co-evolved with the physical environment.