Astrobiology: Life in the Universe

NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)


  1. Now showing: Year 2008 projects that addressed Astrobiology Roadmap Objectives 1.1, 4.1

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

    Objective 1.1: Models of formation and evolution of habitable planets

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    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1

    Landforms made by groundwater discharge on Mars and Earth

    TEAM: CAL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1

    1. From Molecular Clouds to Habitable Planetary Systems

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

    2. Extraterrestrial Materials: Origin and Evolution of Organic Matter and Water in the Solar System

    TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 3.1

    A search for primordial water from deep in the Earth's mantle

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.1

    A Self-Perpetuating Catalyst for the Production of Organics in Protostellar Nebulae

    TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1

    Abiotic Nitrogen Cycling

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

    Assessing the likelihood of supernova impact of protoplanetary disks

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1

    Bally project

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1

    Chemical Models of Nebular Processes

    TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1

    Climate, Habitability, and the Atmosphere on early Mars

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

    Dynamical Evolution of Astroid Belt and the Parent Bodies of Iron Meteorites

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1

    Early oceans on Mars

    TEAM: CAL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1

    Effects of stellar flares on atmospheres of habitable planets

    TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.3, 7.2

    Evolution of a Habitable Planet (Brantley)

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1

    Evolution of the interior and its consequences for water on Mars

    TEAM: CAL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1

    Expanding the List of Target Stars for Next Generation SETI Searches

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

    Fingerprinting Late Additions to the Earth and Moon via the Study of Highly Siderophile Elements in Lunar Impact Melt Rocks

    TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1

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

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2

    Formation and the Prospects of the Detection of Habitable Planets in Extreme Planetary Systems

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1

    Formation of Planetesimals in a Dynamically Evolving Nebula

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1

    Habitable Planets

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

    Hydrodynamic Escape from Planetary Atmospheres

    TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 3.1

    Isotopic fingerprints of past life and surface conditions on Mars

    TEAM: CAL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 7.1

    Isotopic Signatures of Methane and Higher Hydrocarbon Gases from Precambrian Shield Sites: A Model for Abiogenic Polymerization of Hydrocarbons

    TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

    Modeling Early Atmospheric Composition and Climate

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.1

    Modeling Early Earth Environments

    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

    Module 2: Formation of Habitable Planetary Systems

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

    Module 3: Nature of Planetary Systems

    TEAM: UA / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2

    Origin and Activation Mechanism of Main Belt Comets

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1

    Origin and Evolution of Organics

    TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 3.1

    Origin and Evolution of Organics in Planetary Systems

    TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1, 3.2

    Origin of Irregular Satellites

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1

    Planet Formation and Dynamical Modeling

    TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1, 4.3

    Planet Formation and Dynamical Modeling

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1, 6.2

    Planetary Habitability

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

    Planetary Surface and Interior Models and Super Earths

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

    Planetary-Scale Transition from Abiotic to Biotic Nitrogen Cycle

    TEAM: SETI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1

    Prebiotic Organics from Space

    TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.4, 4.3, 7.1, 7.2

    PSARC (Sigurdsson report)

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2

    Radiolytic oxidation of sulfide minerals as a source of sulfate and hydrogen to sustain microbial metabolism

    TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 3.3, 4.1, 5.1, 5.3, 6.2

    Research Activities in the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory

    TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 7.1

    Sediment-buried basement deep biosphere

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.3, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2

    Star and Planet Formation

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1

    Sulfur biogeochemistry of the Early Earth

    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 delivery of short-lived radionucleides to the solar system

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.3

    The High Lakes Project (HLP)

    TEAM: SETI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1

    Training for Oxygen: Peroxy in Rocks, Early Life and the Evolution of the Atmosphere

    TEAM: SETI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 7.2

    Variable Young Stellar Objects Survey (VYSOS)

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2

    VPL Climate and Radiative Transfer Models

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

    VPL Model Interfaces and the Community Tool

    TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.1, 7.2

    Roadmap Goal 4: Understand how past life on Earth interacted with its changing planetary and Solar System environment

    Objective 4.1: Earth's early biosphere

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    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1

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    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

    3. Prebiotic Chemical and Isotopic Evolution on Earth

    TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1

    4. Prebiotic Molecular Selection and Organization

    TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 4.1, 7.1

    6. Molecular and Isotopic Biosignatures

    TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

    A search for primordial water from deep in the Earth's mantle

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.1

    Biogenic formation of high-magnesium calcite in sulfide-rich systems

    TEAM: UWIS / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 6.1, 7.1

    Biosignatures in chemosynthetic and photosynthetic systems

    TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

    Castleman Report

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1

    Describing the anaerobic thermophilic microbial community: A metagenomic strategy

    TEAM: MBL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 5.1, 5.2

    Design, construction and testing of a Cavity-Ring Down Spectrometer for determination of the concentration and isotopic composition of methane

    TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 3.3, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2

    Ecosystem to Biosphere Modeling

    TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 5.3

    Evolution of a Habitable Planet (Stewart)

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 6.1

    Ferry Report

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1

    Genomic Record of the Earth's Early Biosphere (Hedges)

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

    Icelandic subglacial lakes

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.1, 5.3, 6.2

    Iron and sulfur-based biospheres and their biosignatures

    TEAM: CAL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

    Iron isotope biosignatures: Laboratory studies and modern environments

    TEAM: UWIS / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 6.1, 7.1

    Isotopic Signatures of Methane and Higher Hydrocarbon Gases from Precambrian Shield Sites: A Model for Abiogenic Polymerization of Hydrocarbons

    TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

    Laboratory Microbial Simulations: Astrobiological Signatures

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1

    Microbial pyrite oxidation in nature and the lab: sulfate mineral biosignature investigation

    TEAM: UWIS / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.1, 7.1

    Modeling Early Atmospheric Composition and Climate

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.1

    Modeling Early Earth Environments

    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

    New frontiers in micro-analysis of isotopic compositions of natural materials: Development of Fe isotopes

    TEAM: UWIS / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 7.2

    New frontiers in micro-analysis of isotopic compositions of natural materials: Development of O, Si, and Li isotopes

    TEAM: UWIS / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 7.1

    Philosophical Problems in Astrobiology; issues on the origin of life,

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2

    Planetary Habitability

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

    Planetary Surface and Interior Models and Super Earths

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

    Planetary-Scale Transition from Abiotic to Biotic Nitrogen Cycle

    TEAM: SETI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1

    Production of mixed cation carbonates in abiologic and biologic systems

    TEAM: UWIS / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 7.1

    Radiolytic oxidation of sulfide minerals as a source of sulfate and hydrogen to sustain microbial metabolism

    TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 3.3, 4.1, 5.1, 5.3, 6.2

    Sediment-buried basement deep biosphere

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.3, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2

    Sulfur and Phosphorus Cosmochemistry: Implications

    TEAM: UA / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.3, 5.1, 7.1

    Sulfur biogeochemistry of the Early Earth

    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 Diversity of the Original Prebiotic Soup: Re-Analyzing the Original Miller-Urey Spark Discharge Experiments

    TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2

    The High Lakes Project (HLP)

    TEAM: SETI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1

    Training for Oxygen: Peroxy in Rocks, Early Life and the Evolution of the Atmosphere

    TEAM: SETI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 7.2

    Understanding the Microbial Ecology of Geologically-based Chemolithoautotrophic Communities

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.1

    VPL Model Interfaces and the Community Tool

    TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.1, 7.2

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  • 1.2 Indirect and direct astronomical observations of extrasolar habitable planets
  • 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
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  • 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
  • Indiana University, Bloomington
  • Marine Biological Laboratory
  • NASA Ames Research Center
  • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  • Pennsylvania State University
  • SETI Institute
  • University of Arizona
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • University of Colorado, Boulder
  • University of Hawaii
  • University of Wisconsin
  • VPL at University of Washington