Communicating astrobiology and the search for life elsewhere: Speculations and promises of a developing scientific field in newspapers, press releases and papers

• Danilo Albergaria ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: albergaria@strw.leidenuniv.nl

  Affiliations Department of Science Communication & Society and Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, Department of Science Communication & Society, Institute of Biology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4454-8337

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• Pedro Russo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Science Communication & Society and Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, Department of Science Communication & Society, Institute of Biology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Ionica Smeets,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Science Communication & Society, Institute of Biology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Thilina Heenatigala,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI), Institute of Science Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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• Dallyce Vetter

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Science Communication & Society, Institute of Biology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0009-0000-5369-7268

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