Terrestrial algae play a critical, yet often overlooked, role in the functioning of biological soil crusts (biocrusts), which are considered microecosystems, particularly in extreme environments.
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Hydrothermal Origin Of Metabolic Phosphorylation
Phosphate is central to modern bioenergetics and to all theories for the origin of life. How phosphate entered metabolism is unknown, though microbial physiology and geochemical environments can provide important […]
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An Empirical Determination Of The Cosmic Shoreline
The cosmic shoreline concept was introduced to separate planets with atmospheres from those without, by relating the cumulative X-ray and extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) instellation (integrated over the planet’s lifetime) to the […]
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Hot life in Antarctica: A Novel Metabolically Versatile Pyrodictiaceae Genus Thriving At A Volcanic–cryosphere–marine Interface
Deception Island fumaroles in Antarctica represent rare environments where extreme heat intersects with cryospheric and marine conditions, creating remarkable environmental gradients.
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Astrobiology News 19 July 2013
– Snow in an Infant Planetary System, ESO– Reports Detail Mars Rover Clues to Atmosphere’s Past, NASA– Galactic cosmic ray induced radiation dose on terrestrial exoplanets, astro-ph – Searching for […]
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Astrobiology News 12 July 2013
– Collision parameters governing water delivery and water loss in early planetary systems, astro-ph– Small hydrocarbon molecules in cloud-forming Brown Dwarf and giant gas planet atmospheres, astro-ph– Making systems of […]
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Astrobiology News 27 June 2013
– Overprotection may be hampering hunt for Mars life, new Scientist– Manganese-oxidizing photosynthesis before the rise of cyanobacteria, PNAS– The overprotection of Mars, Nature Geoscience– Travelogue from Young Researchers in […]
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Astrobiology News 26 June 2013
– Luminosity of young Jupiters revisited. Massive cores make hot planets, astro-ph– A dynamically-packed planetary system around GJ667C with three super-Earths in its habitable zone, astro-ph– How close is Earth […]
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Astrobiology Daily News 18 May 2013
– KOI-127b: a very low-albedo, Saturn-mass transiting planet around a metal rich solar-like star, astro-ph– The effect of rotation and tidal heating on the thermal lightcurves of Super Mercuries, astro-ph– […]
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Astrobiology Daily News 15 May 2013
– Deep fracture fluids isolated in the crust since the Precambrian era, Nature– An Understanding of the Shoulder of Giants: Jovian Planets around Late K Dwarf Stars and the Trend […]