Astrobiology: Life in the Universe

NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)


  1. Now showing: Years 2006, 2008 projects that addressed Astrobiology Roadmap Objective 1.2

  2. Roadmap Goal 1: Understand the nature and distribution of habitable environments in the Universe

    Objective 1.2: Indirect and direct astronomical observations of extrasolar habitable planets

    1. From Molecular Clouds to Habitable Planetary Systems

    Year: 2008 / TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1

    A 1-D Climate Model for Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets

    Year: 2006 / TEAM: VPL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 7.2

    A search for H3+ emission from close-in exoplanets

    Year: 2006 / TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2

    A Search for H3+ from the Atmospheres of Hot Jupiters

    Year: 2006 / TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2

    Abiotic Nitrogen Cycling

    Year: 2008 / TEAM: SETI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1

    Astronomical Observations of Terrestrial Planet Atmospheres

    Year: 2008 / TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2, 7.2

    Characterization of Terrestrial Planets From Disk-Averaged Spectra: Spatially and Spectrally Resolved Planetary Models

    Year: 2006 / TEAM: VPL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2, 7.2

    Climate, Habitability, and the Atmosphere on early Mars

    Year: 2006 / TEAM: CAL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 4.1, 7.1

    Climate, Habitability, and the Atmosphere on early Mars

    Year: 2008 / TEAM: CAL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

    Database of Stellar Spectra to Support Extrasolar Planet Modeling

    Year: 2006 / TEAM: VPL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2, 4.1, 6.2, 7.2

    Direct Detection and Characterization of Extrasolar Planets

    Year: 2006 / TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2

    Disks and Dips

    Year: 2006 / TEAM: UCLA / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2

    Earth as an Extrasolar Planet

    Year: 2008 / TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2, 7.2

    Expanding the List of Target Stars for Next Generation SETI Searches

    Year: 2008 / TEAM: SETI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 4.3, 6.2, 7.2

    Extrasolar Planet Detection and Characterization

    Year: 2006 / TEAM: VPL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2, 7.2

    Extrasolar Planets

    Year: 2008 / TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2

    Formation and Detection of Hot-Earth Objects in Systems with Close-in Jupiters

    Year: 2008 / TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2

    FU ORIONIS ERUPTIONS

    Year: 2008 / TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2

    FU ORIONIS ERUPTIONS

    Year: 2008 / TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2

    Habitable Planets

    Year: 2006 / TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 4.1, 4.3

    Habitable Planets

    Year: 2008 / TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 4.3

    Identifying the Missing Young Low-Mass Stars, the Likely Hosts of Most Extrasolar Planets

    Year: 2006 / TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2

    Model Synthesis and Architecture

    Year: 2006 / TEAM: VPL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 4.3, 7.2

    Modeling Early Earth Environments

    Year: 2008 / TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.2

    Modeling Terrestrial Planet Formation and Composition

    Year: 2006 / TEAM: VPL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 3.1

    Module 2: Formation of Habitable Planetary Systems

    Year: 2008 / TEAM: UA / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 3.1

    Module 3: Nature of Planetary Systems

    Year: 2006 / TEAM: UA / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2

    Module 3: Nature of Planetary Systems

    Year: 2008 / TEAM: UA / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2

    NEWBORN BINARIES

    Year: 2008 / TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2

    No title given

    Year: 2006 / TEAM: UCLA / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2

    Planetary Biology, Evolution, and Intelligence

    Year: 2006 / TEAM: SETI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1

    Planetary Habitability

    Year: 2008 / TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 5.3, 6.1, 7.2

    Planetary Habitability and Life Detection (Sigurdsson)

    Year: 2006 / TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2

    Planetary Surface and Interior Models and Super Earths

    Year: 2008 / TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.2

    Project 1. From Molecular Clouds to Habitable Planetary Systems

    Year: 2006 / TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 7.2

    PSARC (Sigurdsson report)

    Year: 2008 / TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2

    Search for Planets Around Evolved Stars (Wolszczan)

    Year: 2006 / TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2

    Spectropolarimetric studies of stars with hot jupiters

    Year: 2008 / TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2

    Star-Planet Interactions as a Probe of Extrasolar Planetary Magnetic Fields

    Year: 2006 / TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2

    Sulfur biogeochemistry of the Early Earth

    Year: 2008 / TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

    The effect of lunar-like satellites on the orbital infrared lightcurves of Earth-analog planets

    Year: 2008 / TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2

    The Habitability of the Nearest Stars to Complex Life

    Year: 2006 / TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2, 6.2, 7.2

    THE VYSOS PROJECT

    Year: 2008 / TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2

    Variable Young Stellar Objects Survey (VYSOS)

    Year: 2008 / TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2

    VPL Climate and Radiative Transfer Models

    Year: 2008 / TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2

    X-ray- and UV-bright low-mass stars in the solar neighborhood

    Year: 2008 / TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2

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  • 1.1 Models of formation and evolution of habitable planets
  • 1.2 [x]
  • 2.1 Mars exploration
  • 2.2 Outer Solar System exploration
  • 3.1 Sources of prebiotic materials and catalysts
  • 3.2 Origins and evolution of functional biomolecules
  • 3.3 Origins of energy transduction
  • 3.4 Origins of cellularity and protobiological systems
  • 4.1 Earth's early biosphere
  • 4.2 Foundations of complex life
  • 5.1 Environment-dependent, molecular evolution in microorganisms
  • 5.2 Co-evolution of microbial communities
  • 5.3 Biochemical adaptation to extreme environments
  • 6.1 Environmental changes and the cycling of elements by the biota, communities, and ecosystems
  • 6.2 Adaptation and evolution of life beyond Earth
  • 7.1 Biosignatures to be sought in Solar System materials
  • 7.2 Biosignatures to be sought in nearby planetary systems

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  • Carnegie Institution of Washington
  • NASA Ames Research Center
  • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  • Pennsylvania State University
  • SETI Institute
  • University of Arizona
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • University of California, Los Angeles
  • University of Colorado, Boulder
  • University of Hawaii
  • VPL at University of Washington
  • Virtual Planetary Laboratory (JPL/CalTech)