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Screenshot from the Life Underground Game where students take the role of investigators of extreme subsurface environments looking for microbial life.
Middle School Teacher Reviewers Needed - Online Astrobiology "Game"Oct. 6, 2017
Masashi Aono, left, in the radiation room at the Tokyo Institute of Technology where his team produced formamine by exposing chemicals to radiation.
Water can be Corrosive to Life, so what about Alternative Solvents?Oct. 5, 2017
A time-lapse view of the 2009 Perseid meteor shower.
New Information about Accretion Processes in the Early Solar SystemOct. 4, 2017
This artist’s impression shows an imagined view from the surface one of the three planets orbiting an ultracool dwarf star just 40 light-years from Earth that were discovered using the TRAPPIST telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory.
Habitability in the TRAPPIST-1 SystemOct. 2, 2017
Artist impression of a large, rocky body impacting a planet-sized rocky world. Bursts of light and heat are released at the point of impact with lines suggesting motion and destruction from the violent impact.
Support for a Catastrophic Formation of the MoonSept. 29, 2017
A picture of the tree of life created using microbes on a Petri dish.
The Balance of Hydrogen Isotopes in Fatty Acids and Environmental WaterSept. 28, 2017
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Webcast of Astrobiology, Synthetic Biology, and the Future of LifeSept. 27, 2017
Marcus Bray (left), a biology Ph.D. candidate, and Jennifer Glass, assistant professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and member of the NASA Astrobiology Institute Alternative Earths team, are shown in th
The Role of Microbes in Maintaining Atmospheric Methane on the Early EarthSept. 27, 2017
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Messy Chemistry: A New Way to Approach the Origins of LifeSept. 26, 2017
Danakil Depression, Ethiopia.
Microbes Found in Blistering Hot Springs of EthiopiaSept. 26, 2017
The face of Perito Moreno Glacier in Argentina.
Clues to an Ancient Biotic CrisisSept. 25, 2017
Artist's concept of Kepler-62f, a super-Earth. Scientists are trying to understand the origin of life and generalize the results to other potentially habitable planets in the Universe.
Furthering the Hunt for Habitable Planets with StatisticsSept. 22, 2017
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