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Transcriptomic Responses of a Microbe Under Simulated Martian ConditionsOct. 25, 2018
Earth as seen from the International Space Station.
Cycling Sulfur in the Early TriassicOct. 24, 2018
Habitable exoplanets where life uses the purple-pigmented retinal to provide metabolic energy from sunlight could have as drop-off in green light when viewed spectroscopically.
Was Life on the Early Earth Purple?Oct. 23, 2018
Artist illustration of the BepiColombo orbiters, MIO and Bepi, around Mercury.
BepiColombo Launches For MercuryOct. 22, 2018
This is an artist's concept of the Stardust spacecraft beginning its flight through gas and dust around comet Wild 2. Stardust found glycine in some of the samples it collected. Credit: NASA/JPL
GEMS‐like Objects in Stardust SamplesOct. 22, 2018
The Astrobiology Science Strategy for the Search for Life in the Universe from the National Academy of Sciences Engineering and Medicine (NAS) was released on October 10, 2018.
Video Available: Astrobiology Science StrategyOct. 19, 2018
An artistic depiction of the Habitable Exoplanet Observatory and an accompanying starshade.
Science Strategies Chart Course for Detecting Life on Other WorldsOct. 19, 2018
Dickinsonia costata, one of the most common species of the Ediacaran period, moved and fed on seafloor microbe mats. This specimen and its silly putty cast are about 6 centimeters across and from the Nilpena Station of South Australia.
Ediacaran Scavenging as a Prelude to PredationOct. 19, 2018
Earth’s thin atmosphere is all that stands between life on Earth and the cold, dark void of space.
Explaining the Proterozoic Greenhouse GapOct. 18, 2018
Crew members aboard the International Space Station took this nighttime photograph of much of the Atlantic coast of the United States.
Technosignatures and the Search for Extraterrestrial IntelligenceOct. 18, 2018
Artist impression of meteorites falling on the early Earth.
A Review of Studies on Sugars in Carbonaceous MeteoritesOct. 17, 2018
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AbSciCon 2019: Session Proposal CallOct. 16, 2018
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