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To protect and preserve ET life? That is the questionMarch 9, 2016
Eerie blue light suffuses the otherworldly bottom of Lake Untersee, Antarctica, where scientists have found structures (purple lumps) built by layer upon layer of growing microbes.
Microbial Mats Adapting to the ColdMarch 8, 2016
Noah Planavsky (left) and Timothy Lyons are seen here examining a rock sample in the lab. Photo credit: UCR Strategic Communications.
Noah Planavsky Selected as a 2016 Alfred P. Sloan Fellow in Ocean SciencesMarch 7, 2016
Alkaline hydrothermal vents may have played a role in the origin of life.
Life’s Building Blocks Form In Replicated Deep Sea VentsMarch 6, 2016
BSE-SEM images of fossils in sandstone from Michigan. At Left: internal tube in the carbonaceous material (black arrow). At right: a branching external tube in the carbonaceous material (black arrow), and the branching point (white arrow).
Hydroids or Hemichordates?March 4, 2016
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NASA Astrobiology Debates: Eastern Championship Live WebcastMarch 3, 2016
Aomawa Shields, a National Science Foundation Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow and a UC President’s Postdoctoral Program Fellow in the UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Origins Project Announces Postdoctoral Lectureship AwardMarch 2, 2016
New research will help astronomers better identify and rule out “false positives” in the ongoing search for life. This image is an illustration of the planet Kepler 62E, about 1,200 light-years away in the constellation Lyra. Image credit: NASA
Life or Illusion? Avoiding ‘False Positives’ in the Search for Living WorldsMarch 1, 2016
Core Program: Emerging Worlds. This is an artist's impression of innumerable Earth-like planets that have yet to be born.
ROSES 2016 SolicitationsFeb. 29, 2016
This is an artist’s view of the young Earth under bombardment by asteroids, one of many periods with conditions likely to have parallels in other solar systems. NASA GSFC
Many Worlds blog post on the recent Upstairs Downstairs Workshop at ASUFeb. 25, 2016
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2016 National Academy of Science AwardsFeb. 25, 2016
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Societal Implications of Astrobiology at the Center of Theological InquiryFeb. 24, 2016
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