NASA astrobiologist and space scientist Shawn Domagal-Goldman is part of a team looking for life beyond Earth. NASA is flying missions to search for habitable environments beyond Earth and is planning missions to look for life in any habitable places it finds.

Shawn also works on the Curiosity mission, which is a rover driving around Mars looking for past habitable environments.

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