The study of life in the universe is a multidisciplinary field of scientific research, involving scientists with training in many different areas. This scientific discipline has been given the name ____. (The American Physical Society has created a division with this name and NASA has given it the same name as the one adopted by your textbook.)
(a) exobiology (b) bioastronomy (c) astrobiology (d) biochemistry (e) biophysics
c