"We keep looking for life in other planets. But what is the definition for life? What is the difference between living and non-living?"
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Arizona State University
- NASA selects new NAI teams through a competitive peer review process. The October 2, 2008 press release announces the fifth round of team selections since the Institute’s founding in 1998. Following selection, NASA executes 5-year Cooperative Agreements with each team's institution. It is expected that the newly-announced teams will begin their terms in early 2009.
- Press Release: NASA Selects New Science Teams for the NAI
- University of Hawaii
- Arizona State University
- Carnegie Institution of Washington
- Pennsylvania State University
- NASA Ames Research Center
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Icy Worlds
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Titan
