Biosignatures & Paleobiology

Is There Such A Thing As A Biosignature?

• Status Report
• January 16, 2024

SETI & Technosignatures

Is Oxygen The Cosmic Key To Alien Technology?

• Press Release
• January 3, 2024

Mars

PIXL Instrument on Perseverance Rover Studies ‘Bills Bay’

• Status Report
• December 19, 2023

Biosignatures & Paleobiology

Searching For Biosignature Gases With The James Webb Space Telescope

• Status Report
• December 3, 2023

Plant Biology

A Spectrum Of Possibilities: Insights Into The Evolution Of Far-red Light Photosynthesis

• Press Release
• November 28, 2023

Biosignatures & Paleobiology

Searching For Life In Hot Spring Carbonate Systems: Investigating Raman Spectra Of Carotenoid-Bearing Organic Carbonaceous Inclusions From Travertines Of Italy

• Status Report
• November 23, 2023

Biosignatures & Paleobiology

Controls of Atmospheric Methane on Early Earth and Inhabited Earth-like Terrestrial Exoplanets

• Status Report
• November 14, 2023

Exoplanets & Exomoons

Retrievals Applied To A Decision Tree Framework Can Characterize Earth-like Exoplanet Analogs

• Status Report
• November 14, 2023

Mars

Mars Rock Samples: The Stories They Could Tell

• Status Report
• October 15, 2023

Biosignatures & Paleobiology

On The Importance And Challenges Of Modelling Extraterrestrial Photopigments Via Density-functional Theory

• Press Release
• October 15, 2023

Atmospheres & Climate

An Extensively Validated C/H/O/N Chemical Network For Hot Exoplanet Disequilibrium Chemistry

• Status Report
• October 13, 2023

Biosignatures & Paleobiology

A Complex Systems Approach to Exoplanet Atmospheric Chemistry: New Prospects for Ruling Out the Possibility of Alien Life-As-We-Know-It

• Status Report
• October 10, 2023

Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography

Water Absorption In The Transmission Spectrum Of The Water-world Candidate GJ9827d

• Status Report
• September 21, 2023

SETI & Technosignatures

Fully Fluorinated Non-carbon Compounds NF3 And SF6 As Ideal Technosignature Gases

• Status Report
• August 31, 2023

Biosignatures & Paleobiology

Life Detection Techniques Inspired By Developments And Tools In Physical And Biological Sciences

• Press Release
• July 21, 2023

Mars

A Simple Biochemical Method for the Detection of Proteins as Biomarkers of Life on Martian Soil Simulants and the Impact of UV Radiation

• Status Report
• June 1, 2023

Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology

How Geobiological Feedback Makes Some Yellowstone Hydrothermal Pools Acidic

• Press Release
• May 24, 2023

Genomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics

Sedimentary DNA Can Influence Evolution: Establishing Mineral Facilitated Horizontal Gene Transfer As A Route To Bacterial Fitness

• Press Release
• January 29, 2023

Biosignatures & Paleobiology

Biosignature Line Ratios Of [P II] In Exoplanetary And Nebular Environments

• Status Report
• January 20, 2023

Biosignatures & Paleobiology

Photochemical Hazes Can Trace The C/O Ratio In Exoplanet Atmospheres

• Press Release
• January 11, 2023