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All Research Highlights
Martian Methane Reveals the Red Planet is not a Dead Planet
/ January 15MRO Reveals Details of a Wetter Mars
/ October 30Miller-Urey Revisited
/ October 16Life Without the Sun
/ October 10Mirror-Image Clues to Life's Origins
/ October 8Early Earth Primed for Later RNA and DNA Production
/ September 19Cyanobacterial Biomarkers in Ancient Rocks
/ September 19Evolution of the Gut
/ September 19Iron Isotope Record Reflects Microbial Metabolism Through Time
/ August 27Silicate Mineralogy on Mars Indicates Wet Past
/ August 27Jack Hills Zircons: New Information About Earth's Earliest Crust
/ August 27Marine Subsurface is a Distinct Microbial Habitat
/ July 24New Extrasolar Planetary System May Be Much Like Our Own
/ July 18Moon Samples Found to Contain Water
/ July 18Phoenix Scrapes 'Almost Perfect' Icy Soil For Analysis
/ July 1Extraterrestrial Nucleobases in the Murchison Meteorite
/ June 25Bright Chunks At Phoenix Lander's Mars Site Must Have Been Ice
/ June 19Seafloor Microbes Abundant and Thriving....An Alternative Cradle for Life?
/ May 28Erosion on Earth and Mars: Mere Seepage or Megaflood?
/ May 28Enzyme's Active Site Revealed
/ May 27Wandering Poles on Europa
/ May 22Organic Haze, Glaciations and Multiple Sulfur Isotopes in the Mid-Archean Era
/ May 9New Round of Exo-Evo Grants Awarded
/ April 27Molybdenum and the Rise of Complex Life
/ April 1Methane and Water Vapor Observed in Atmosphere of Exoplanet
/ March 25Signs of Ocean Beneath Titan's Crust?
/ March 25New Mineral Points the Way for Search for Life on Mars
/ March 20Meteorites a Rich Source for Primordial Soup
/ March 13Detecting Water on Extrasolar Planet Surfaces
/ February 14Rethinking Early Earth Phosphorus Geochemistry
/ February 14Binary Stars in the Orion Nebula
/ November 28A Geobiological Perspective on the Emergence of Animal Life
/ November 14Novel Proteobacteria in Microbial Mats at Loihi Seamount
/ November 14Discovering Earth-like Exoplanets
/ October 11Oxygen in Earth's Early Atmosphere
/ October 11Microbial Population Structures in the Deep Marine Biosphere
/ October 9Oxygen in Earth's Atmosphere Before Great Oxidation Event
/ September 28Martian Ice Ages
/ September 13Subaerial Volcanoes Shift Oxygen Levels on Early Earth
/ August 31Water Vapor Observed in Young Star System
/ August 31New Enzymes in the Laboratory
/ August 17Discovering a New Life Form in the Hot Springs of Yellowstone
/ July 27Water Vapor Detected on Extrasolar Planet
/ July 11Chemical Complexity in an Old Star
/ June 28Methane in the Martian Atmosphere
/ June 18Evidence for Ancient Ocean on Mars
/ June 14Extracellular Protein-Metal Aggregates: A New Biosignature?
/ June 14New World Frogs
/ June 7Microbial Populations in Antarctic Permafrost
/ June 6Ancient Organism Verified as Fungus
/ May 2Exoplanets and M Stars
/ April 18Final Assembly of Earth-Like Planets
/ April 17Plants on Other Planets May Not be Green
/ April 11Habitability of Planets Around M Dwarf Stars
/ April 10PAH's Responsible for "Red Glow"
/ April 9A New Model for the Early Ocean
/ March 5Salinity of Europa's Ocean
/ February 27Spectra of Two Extrasolar Planets
/ February 26Biogeochemistry and Oxygenic Photosynthesis
/ February 8Greenhouse Gases on Early Earth Helped Keep It Warm
/ February 7Low Abundance Acidophilic Archea Revealed
/ December 21Snowball Earth and the Origin of Photosynthesis
/ December 21Found: A Hyperthermophilic Nitrogen Fixer
/ December 14Stardust Sample Analysis
/ December 14Direct Observation of Magnetic Field on Tau Bootis
/ December 11Oxygen and Life in the Precambrian
/ November 27Mineral Surfaces and Life
/ November 20Organic Hazes on Early Earth and Titan
/ November 7Romer's Gap Confirmed
/ October 25Microbes of the Deep
/ October 20Exoplanet Weather
/ October 17Photosynthesis in the late Archean
/ October 17Microbial Production of Gases in the Deep Marine Subsurface
/ October 4Exotic Earths
/ September 8Earth's Ancient Atmosphere: the Rise of Oxygen
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