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Finding Earth’s Twin: No Easy Task
Earthscope – Opportunities for Interdisciplinary Research
/ February 27Kepler's Search for "Alien Earths" Covered by CNN
Evolution of the Modern Nitrogen Cycle
Alien Safari Part 4: Countdown to Alien Life
Cycling Nitrogen
Unlocking the Combination
Assembling the Tree of Life
Alien Safari Part 3: Technology Worlds
Protocells Bridging Nonliving and Living Matter
/ February 13Echoes of Extinction
A Natural Iron Fertilization Mechanism from the Deep Sea
Life in Extreme Environments Educator Conference
Alien Safari Part 2: Life Above and Below
The Science of NAI - Overview Presentations Available as Podcasts
NSF Announces New Ice-Core Drilling Agreements for Polar Research
Oldest Evidence for Animals in the Fossil Record
Alien Safari, Part I: Slime Worlds
/ February 2Open Questions on the Origins of Life
/ January 30Great Oxidation Event Got Earlier Start
Goldschmidt Session on Exobiology
Opportunities in Microbial Genome Sequencing
/ January 26Life in Transition
Biosignatures in Ancient Rocks Workshop Proceedings Now Available
Hiding from Jupiter's Radiation
Replicating RNA
Martian Methane Reveals the Red Planet is not a Dead Planet
Methane-Spewing Martians?
A Banner Year for Astrobiology in Discover Magazine's Top 100 Stories of 2008
Astrobiology Summer Science Experience for Teachers (ASSET)
NAI Scientist Elected AAAS Fellow
Examining a SLIce of the Arctic
Astrobiology Top 10
Planets Form in the Eye of the Storm
ENDURANCE: Follow the Blog
Unmasking Europa
/ December 15Follow the Elements
Exploring Europa on Earth
MSL Delayed
Elements and Evolution
Extreme Science on Earth's Highest Lakes
Marco Polo and Meteorites
Jill Tarter Receives TED Prize
Carbon Dioxide Discovered on Extrasolar Planet
Buried Martian Glaciers
New NAI Team at RPI Launches New York Center for Astrobiology
NASA's Astrobiology Origins
Astrobiology in New Scientist
Baking the Rover is Not an Option
Astrobiology Curriculum Pilot Kicks-Off Maine STEM Initiative
Carbonate Conundrum
Seeing a Distant Planet
Earth's Mineral Evolution
A Divining Rod for Mars
Life's Boiling Point
Evidence for a New Root of the Tree of Life
On the Origins of Biological Homochirality
Titan's Triple Threat
/ November 7Cliffbot goes Climbing
MRO Reveals Details of a Wetter Mars
Titan is Electric
Seeing Life in Viruses
/ October 27Comet Dust Reveals Unexpected Mixing of Solar System Material
Magnetic Death Star
Shooting Life on Mars
Miller-Urey Revisited
"Alien" Water Bears Amaze Scientists
2008 High Lakes Project: From Early Mars to Today’s Earth
Searching for Earth Life, from Venus
/ October 15The Sun is Setting on Phoenix
/ October 12Measuring the Weight of Ancient Air
Life Without the Sun
Studying a Giant Planet
The Ions and Isoptopes of Enceladus
/ October 8Mirror-Image Clues to Life's Origins
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