astrobiology News


Mission Press Releases

  • World-Renowned Scientists and Scholars Gather to Discuss the Migration of Life in the Universe and Recent Space Discoveries
    Breakthrough Initiatives - Wednesday, April 10, 2019
    Posted on: 4/11/2019 1:33:08 AM PDT

  • Call For Abstracts: American Society for Gravitational and Space Research
    American Society for Gravitational and Space Research - Tuesday, April 9, 2019
    Posted on: 4/9/2019 3:25:25 PM PDT

  • 2019 Astrobiology Science Conference: Press registration now open
    American Geophysical Union - Thursday, April 4, 2019
    Posted on: 4/4/2019 3:11:50 PM PDT

  • Prebiotic chemistry: Stable majorities
    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet - Tuesday, April 2, 2019
    Posted on: 4/3/2019 12:37:14 AM PDT

  • Building blocks of DNA and RNA could have appeared together before life began on Earth
    Scripps Research Institute - Tuesday, April 2, 2019
    Posted on: 4/2/2019 2:41:27 PM PDT

  • Jason Wright to Receive 2019 Frank Drake Award
    SETI Institute - Tuesday, March 26, 2019
    Posted on: 3/26/2019 4:02:06 PM PDT

  • Astrobiology Seminar Aims to Inspire a Look into the Bounds of Life
    University of Wisconsin-Madison - Thursday, March 21, 2019
    Posted on: 3/21/2019 7:19:03 PM PDT

  • Chances for Life Expand When Binary Stars Push Together
    University of Sheffield - Monday, March 11, 2019
    Posted on: 3/12/2019 2:59:43 AM PDT

  • Simulated extravehicular activity science operations for Mars exploration
    Mary Ann Liebert Inc. - Wednesday, March 6, 2019
    Posted on: 3/7/2019 1:57:32 AM PDT

  • Dinosaurs were thriving before asteroid strike that wiped them out
    Imperial College London - Wednesday, March 6, 2019
    Posted on: 3/6/2019 3:39:24 PM PDT

  • Researchers outline goals for collecting and studying samples from Mars
    Wiley - Wednesday, March 6, 2019
    Posted on: 3/6/2019 3:34:42 PM PDT

  • New NASA Team Tackles Next Challenges in Detecting Life Beyond Earth
    Ames Research Center - Monday, February 11, 2019
    Posted on: 2/11/2019 6:08:14 PM PDT

  • Do you like Earth's solid surface and life-inclined climate? Thank your lucky (massive) star
    University of Michigan - Monday, February 11, 2019
    Posted on: 2/11/2019 4:33:57 PM PDT

  • Earth's largest extinction event likely took plants first
    University of Nebraska-Lincoln - Friday, February 1, 2019
    Posted on: 2/1/2019 4:32:51 PM PDT

  • Complex molecules emerge without evolution or design
    University of Groningen - Friday, January 18, 2019
    Posted on: 1/18/2019 11:35:15 PM PDT

  • Martian drill set for Antarctic climate mission
    University of Glasgow - Thursday, January 3, 2019
    Posted on: 1/3/2019 11:58:10 PM PDT

  • Allosource Scientists Contribute To NASA JPL Study On Antimicrobial Survivability On The International Space Station
    AlloSource - Tuesday, December 11, 2018
    Posted on: 12/11/2018 8:44:34 PM PDT

  • Instrument on NASA Probe Finds Hydrated Minerals on Asteroid Bennu
    Arizona State University - Tuesday, December 11, 2018
    Posted on: 12/11/2018 8:38:16 PM PDT

  • Did supernovae kill off large ocean animals at dawn of Pleistocene?
    University of Kansas - Tuesday, December 11, 2018
    Posted on: 12/11/2018 4:16:03 PM PDT

  • Life in deep Earth totals 15 to 23 billion tons of carbon -- hundreds of times more than humans
    Deep Carbon Observatory - Tuesday, December 11, 2018
    Posted on: 12/11/2018 3:52:33 PM PDT

    		• Mission Status Releases

  • On degeneracies in retrievals of exoplanetary transmission spectra
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - April 11, 2019
    Posted on: 4/12/2019 4:14:04 AM PDT

  • Decomposition of Amino Acids in Water with Application to In-Situ Measurements of Enceladus, Europa and Other Hydrothermally Active Icy Ocean Worlds
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - April 11, 2019
    Posted on: 4/12/2019 4:13:00 AM PDT

  • A Formaldehyde Deep Field
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - April 1, 2019
    Posted on: 4/2/2019 1:05:48 AM PDT

  • Possibility of a coordinated signaling scheme in the Galaxy and SETI experiments
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - April 1, 2019
    Posted on: 4/2/2019 1:03:57 AM PDT

  • Ultraviolet Spectropolarimetry as a Tool for Understanding the Diversity of Exoplanetary Atmospheres
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - March 14, 2019
    Posted on: 3/15/2019 1:31:42 AM PDT

  • A Shiny New Method for SETI: Specular Reflections from Interplanetary Artifacts
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - March 14, 2019
    Posted on: 3/15/2019 1:28:58 AM PDT

  • Young Scientist Program 2019
    NASA Astrobiology Institute - March 10, 2019
    Posted on: 3/10/2019 4:55:11 PM PDT

  • Planetary Protection Research Europa Lander Update
    NASA Astrobiology Institute - March 10, 2019
    Posted on: 3/10/2019 4:54:15 PM PDT

  • Tracking Redox with Chromium Isotope
    NASA Astrobiology Institute - March 10, 2019
    Posted on: 3/10/2019 4:53:18 PM PDT

  • Sedimentary Processes in High-Altitude Salars
    NASA Astrobiology Institute - March 10, 2019
    Posted on: 3/10/2019 4:51:59 PM PDT

  • Testing a Reflective Spatial Heterodyne Spectrometer for Spaceflight
    NASA Astrobiology Institute - March 10, 2019
    Posted on: 3/10/2019 4:50:36 PM PDT

  • ICEMAG Update on Europa Clipper
    NASA HQ - March 5, 2019
    Posted on: 3/5/2019 11:52:26 PM PDT

  • Exoplanet host-star properties: the active environment of exoplanets
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - March 5, 2019
    Posted on: 3/5/2019 3:26:57 PM PDT

  • Searching for Extraterrestrial Civilizations Using gamma Ray Telescopes
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - February 26, 2019
    Posted on: 2/27/2019 2:14:11 AM PDT

  • A gas-phase primordial origin of O2 in comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - February 25, 2019
    Posted on: 2/26/2019 2:22:06 AM PDT

  • NASA ROSES-18 Amendment 62: New opportunity in C.15 PPR - Planetary Protection Research
    NASA Science Mission Directorate - February 8, 2019
    Posted on: 2/8/2019 10:21:49 PM PDT

  • Connecting planet formation and astrochemistry: Refractory carbon depletion leading to super-stellar C/O in giant planetary atmospheres
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - January 29, 2019
    Posted on: 1/29/2019 4:16:49 PM PDT

  • Stellar activity analysis of Barnard's Star: Very slow rotation and evidence for long-term activity cycle
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - January 16, 2019
    Posted on: 1/16/2019 10:39:04 PM PDT

  • AbSciCon 2019 Session: Salty Goodness: Understanding Life, Biosignature Preservation, and Brines In The Solar System
    AbSciCon 2019 - January 6, 2019
    Posted on: 1/6/2019 11:51:10 PM PDT

  • AbSciCon 2019 Session: Alive or not?
    AbSciCon 2019 - January 6, 2019
    Posted on: 1/6/2019 11:50:21 PM PDT

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