astrobiology

[Mullins, Bill]

Astrobiology -- OED has 1955, OED SF project has the same.

Astronomical Society of the Pacific Leaflets, Vol. 3, p.333
Leaflet #143, Jan 1941
"The subject of astrobiology -- the consideration of life in the
universe elsewhere than on earth -- is one that hs been so often and so
inadequately treated that the immediate and natural tendency of an
experienced reader is to expect another bit of pseudo-scientific
romancing."