astrobiology News


Mission Press Releases

  • Mapping the Chemistry Needed for Life at Europa
    Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Friday, April 5, 2013
    Posted on: 4/6/2013 12:12:50 AM PDT

  • Dartmouth Researchers Say a Comet Killed the Dinosaurs
    Dartmouth College - Thursday, April 4, 2013
    Posted on: 4/4/2013 8:10:54 PM PDT

  • Power Behind Primordial Soup Discovered
    University of Leeds - Thursday, April 4, 2013
    Posted on: 4/4/2013 7:57:25 PM PDT

  • NASA Team Investigates Complex Chemistry at Titan
    Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Wednesday, April 3, 2013
    Posted on: 4/3/2013 6:06:21 PM PDT

  • An Oxygen-poor 'Boring' Ocean Challenged Evolution of Early Life
    University of California-Riverside - Tuesday, March 26, 2013
    Posted on: 3/26/2013 5:26:04 PM PDT

  • Highly effective communities of bacteria in the world's deepest oceanic trench
    University of Southern Denmark - Monday, March 18, 2013
    Posted on: 3/19/2013 2:04:53 AM PDT

  • Astronomers Observe Planets Around Another Star Like Never Before
    California Institute of Technology - Tuesday, March 12, 2013
    Posted on: 3/13/2013 2:46:44 AM PDT

  • Earth-sized planets in habitable zones are more common than previously though
    Pennsylvania State University - Tuesday, March 12, 2013
    Posted on: 3/13/2013 2:43:52 AM PDT

  • How to Thrive in Battery Acid and Among Toxic Metals: Genome of "extremophile" red alga offers insights
    National Science Foundation - Thursday, March 7, 2013
    Posted on: 3/7/2013 10:18:35 PM PDT

  • University of Georgia researchers shed light on ancient origin of life
    University of Georgia - Thursday, March 7, 2013
    Posted on: 3/7/2013 6:23:57 PM PDT

  • Toxic oceans may have delayed spread of complex life
    University of Exeter - Wednesday, March 6, 2013
    Posted on: 3/6/2013 8:40:43 PM PDT

  • LSU Researchers Find New Information About 'Snowball Earth' Period
    Louisiana State University - Wednesday, March 6, 2013
    Posted on: 3/6/2013 8:38:43 PM PDT

  • Astronomers Open Window into Europa's Ocean
    W.M. Keck Observatory - Wednesday, March 6, 2013
    Posted on: 3/6/2013 8:14:10 PM PDT

  • A Window into Europa's Ocean Lies Right at the Surface
    California Institute of Technology - Tuesday, March 5, 2013
    Posted on: 3/6/2013 4:03:56 AM PDT

  • New Evidence that Comets Could Have Seeded Life on Earth
    University of California Berkeley - Monday, March 4, 2013
    Posted on: 3/5/2013 6:44:34 PM PDT

  • Discoveries Suggest Icy Cosmic Start for Amino Acids and DNA Ingredients
    National Radio Astronomy Observatory - Thursday, February 28, 2013
    Posted on: 2/28/2013 6:42:02 PM PDT

  • Future Evidence for Extraterrestrial Life Might Come from Dying Stars
    Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics - Monday, February 25, 2013
    Posted on: 2/25/2013 5:33:06 PM PDT

  • Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium Explores Habitable Worlds Across Time and Space
    Space Telescope Science Institute - Monday, February 18, 2013
    Posted on: 2/18/2013 6:50:58 PM PDT

  • How The World's Saltiest Pond Gets Its Salt: Implications for Water on Mars
    Brown University - Thursday, February 7, 2013
    Posted on: 2/7/2013 11:47:40 PM PDT

  • NSF-funded Team Samples Antarctic Lake Beneath the Ice Sheet
    National Science Foundation - Saturday, February 2, 2013
    Posted on: 2/2/2013 7:56:48 PM PDT

    		• Mission Status Releases

  • Call for Abstracts, Meeting Registration, American Society for Gravitational and Space Research
    American Society for Gravitational and Space Research - April 24, 2013
    Posted on: 4/24/2013 9:45:54 PM PDT

  • 2013 Sagan Exoplanet Summer Workshop Imaging Planets and Disks Cancelled
    California Institute of Technology - April 19, 2013
    Posted on: 4/20/2013 2:13:39 AM PDT

  • NASA Advisory Council Science Committee; Planetary Protection Subcommittee Meeting 29-30 April 2013
    NASA Advisory Council - April 10, 2013
    Posted on: 4/11/2013 2:25:37 AM PDT

  • The Hadean Earth-Moon System - Workshop Without Walls
    NASA Astrobiology Institute - April 6, 2013
    Posted on: 4/6/2013 3:09:51 PM PDT

  • Last Call for the 2013 NASA Astrobiology Program Minority Institution Research Support Program
    NASA Astrobiology Institute - April 6, 2013
    Posted on: 4/6/2013 3:08:58 PM PDT

  • Postdoctoral Position at University of Hawaii - Astrochemistry
    NASA Astrobiology Institute - April 6, 2013
    Posted on: 4/6/2013 3:08:38 PM PDT

  • Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities at Harvard University Origins of Life
    NASA Astrobiology Institute - April 6, 2013
    Posted on: 4/6/2013 3:08:15 PM PDT

  • Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute Cooperative Agreement Notice
    NASA Astrobiology Institute - April 6, 2013
    Posted on: 4/6/2013 3:07:50 PM PDT

  • Goldschmidt 2013 - Deep Subsurface Fluids, Habitability and Microbial Ecosystems
    NASA Astrobiology Institute - April 6, 2013
    Posted on: 4/6/2013 3:07:00 PM PDT

  • 10th International Congress on Halophilic Microorganisms - Halophiles 2013
    NASA Astrobiology Institute - April 6, 2013
    Posted on: 4/6/2013 3:06:36 PM PDT

  • 2013 Polar and Alpine Microbiology Conference
    NASA Astrobiology Institute - April 6, 2013
    Posted on: 4/6/2013 3:06:10 PM PDT

  • Stellar Stoichiometry Workshop Without Walls, April 11-12
    NASA Astrobiology Institute - April 5, 2013
    Posted on: 4/6/2013 1:47:31 AM PDT

  • NASA Seeks New Director for the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)
    NASA Astrobiology Institute - March 28, 2013
    Posted on: 3/28/2013 8:39:56 PM PDT

  • Assessing the influence of the solar orbit on terrestrial biodiversity
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - March 26, 2013
    Posted on: 3/27/2013 2:08:08 AM PDT

  • NASA Goddard lab works at extreme edge of cosmic ice
    Goddard Space Flight Center - March 4, 2013
    Posted on: 3/5/2013 12:28:36 AM PDT

  • Searching For Biomarkers on Worlds Circling White Dwarf Stars
    - February 25, 2013
    Posted on: 2/25/2013 5:46:03 PM PDT

  • AbGradCon 2013, Abstract submission now open
    NASA Astrobiology Institute - February 18, 2013
    Posted on: 2/18/2013 7:02:34 PM PDT

  • 5th UK Astrobiology Society of Britain Conference: Molecules and Life in Extremes
    UK Centre for Astrobiology - February 18, 2013
    Posted on: 2/18/2013 6:56:59 PM PDT

  • Microbes Survive a Mixed Bag of Mars Biocidals
    NASA Astrobiology Institute - February 12, 2013
    Posted on: 2/12/2013 6:57:52 PM PDT

  • FameLab: Exploring Earth and Beyond At Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
    NASA Astrobiology Institute - February 7, 2013
    Posted on: 2/7/2013 6:23:54 PM PDT

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