Is Astrobiology a Legitimate Scientific Field?

[cosmolojosh]

There is 2 problems with seti anyway. 1. it would take a human like species. There is also a million and 1 other explamaations for what seti is looking for.

 

[JerryClower]

Does astrobiology imply that life exists elsewhere in the Universe besides earth?

 

[qraal]

Does astrobiology imply that life exists elsewhere in the Universe besides earth?

That's what it means, though of course it might all be related to Life here by panspermia.