Penn State receives new NASA astrobiology grant
... on Earth will be the focus of Penn State's new astrobiology
initiative under a five-year grant from NASA's astrobiology
Institute for "Signatures of Life from Earth and ... He becomes director of the existing Penn State astrobiology
Research Center and will take the Center in a new ...
NASA picks ASU research team to guide study of search for life
... than can be explored. As one of the new NASA astrobiology
Institute teams, Arizona State University ... for life.
The multidisciplinary field of astrobiology
explores the origin, evolution, distribution, and ... and evolutionary biology, gave rise to the NASA astrobiology
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Volcanoes may have provided sparks and chemistry for first life
... said lead author Adam Johnson, a graduate student with the NASA astrobiology
Institute team at Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind.
From 1953 to ... who helped the analysis with state-of-the-art instruments in their Goddard astrobiology
Miller actually ran three slightly different ...
Methane-eating microbes can use iron and manganese oxides to 'breathe'
... iron and manganese are more important than sulfate reduction today, but they are not trivial components," said House, who is director of Penn State's astrobiology
Research Center. "They are probably a big part of the carbon cycle today."
One reason they are important is that some of the carbon dioxide ...
New cleaning protocol for future 'search for life' missions
... Earth to the surface of Mars. The studies are also designed to help guide future NASA and ESA planetary missions.
Published today in the journal astrobiology
, the decontamination protocol was developed and tested by scientists at the University of Leeds and NASA. It deals with the dilemma known as ...
Earth's highest known microbial systems fueled by volcanic gases
... them to become established."
Schmidt, who likened the high Andes to the harsh Dry Valleys of Antarctica under study by researchers from NASA's astrobiology
Institute because of their hostile, arid conditions, said the new research also provides information on how the cold regions of Earth function and ...
... for you?" Scott says. "You don't want to damage the sample more than you have to. You'd like to just shoot it directly."
With funding from NASA's astrobiology
program, the researchers have done previous studies showing that minerals like halite and jarosite yield distinct ion patterns when organic molecules ...
As Andean glacier retreats, tiny life forms swiftly move in, CU-Boulder study shows
... for centuries or millennia, said Schmidt. He likened the high Andes to the harsh Dry Valleys of Antarctica, under study by researchers from NASA's astrobiology
Institute because of hostile conditions believed to be similar to those on portions of Mars.
"This kind of research should help us understand how ...
Bringing Martian samples to Earth -- preparations outlined in journal Astrobiology
... could be packaged and transported under conditions that approximate those found on the martian surface to maintain their integrity.
This issue of astrobiology
also includes a special collection of papers that describe "Instruments for In Situ Exploration of Planets," compiled by Guest Editors Max Coleman ...
The emerging scientific discipline of aeroecology
... and technology developments converge that make it possible to recognize a new discipline. Past examples include marine biology, biomechanics and astrobiology
with more recent developments of nanotechnology and bioinformatics all disciplines that are now well established in the lexicon of modern science ...
Origin of life
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