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1960 Daily Tel. 14 Jan. 11/1 Dr. Lederberg is building up a team for work on exobiology, as this branch of the study of life on other planets is called.

1960 Space Research I. 1153 The problems of exobiology have important applications for the development of theoretical biology and the understanding of the mechanism of the evolution of life.

1969 Times 11 Jan. 15/6 The novel feature of the research carried out by staff of the exobiology division of the Nasa Ames Research Centre in California is that the amino-acids discovered in these ancient rocks have the asymmetry characteristic of living things.