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To better support the broad, interdisciplinary field of astrobiology – the study of the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe – NASA is announcing a new programmatic infrastructure for the Astrobiology Program.
Interdisciplinary Consortia for Astrobiology Research (ICAR) Schedule UpdateAug. 16, 2019
The 15th Astrobiology Graduate Conference (AbGradCon) was held from July 22-26, 2019 at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah, with 75 participants presenting 31 talks and 44 posters.
AbGradCon 2019Aug. 16, 2019
Artist concept of the New Horizons spacecraft.
Debris from the early Solar SystemAug. 15, 2019
Astrobiology: The Story of our Search for Life in the Universe. Issue #7: Prebiotic Chemistry and the Origin of Life
Did Amino Acids Stabilize Prebiotic Membranes?Aug. 14, 2019
NASA has begun a major project to explore the potential signs of life very different from what we have on Earth. For example, groups of molecules, like those above, can be analyzed for complexity, regardless of their specific chemical constituents.
“Agnostic Biosignatures,” And the Path to Life as We Don’t Know ItAug. 13, 2019
Evening Primrose spring in Yellowstone National Park.
Sources of Hydrogen in Yellowstone Hot SpringsAug. 8, 2019
Barite blades growing within a layer of barite sand
The Origin of Barite Deposits from the ArcheanAug. 7, 2019
This image shows a zoomed in view of an X1.4-class solar flare from the Sun, shown in blended wavelengths, 131 and 304 angstrom.
Superflares from a Solar-Type StarAug. 6, 2019
AbGradCon 2019 will be held from July 22-26 at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah.
AbGradCon 2019: Watch Now On-Demand!Aug. 2, 2019
Simulations of the streaming instability model of planet formation, where particle clumping triggers gravitational collapse into planetesimals. This snapshot shows the vertically integrated density of solids, projected on the protoplanetary disk plane.
Binaries Help Make Heads or Tails of Planet FormationAug. 1, 2019
Electron micrographs of cells of strain GI, a thermophilic purple nonsulfur bacterium isolated from a hot spring microbial mat in New Mexico.
A New Thermophilic Species from Hot Spring Microbial MatsAug. 1, 2019
Artist impression of a strand of DNA.
'Semi-Synthetic’ Bacteria Produce Proteins Not Seen in NatureJuly 31, 2019
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