Full record for astrobiology n.

Definition a branch of biology concerned with the discovery or study of life on the celestial bodies
OED requirements antedating 1941
Earliest cite Astronomical Society of the Pacific leaflet #143
Comment Bill Mullins submitted a January 1941 cite from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Leaflet #143.

Earliest cite in the OED was from 1955

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