Astrobiology: Life in the Universe

NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)


  1. Now showing: Year 2008 projects that addressed Astrobiology Roadmap Objective 3.1

  2. Roadmap Goal 3: Understand how life originates from cosmic and planetary precursors

    Objective 3.1: Sources of prebiotic materials and catalysts

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

    Advancing Techniques for in situ Analysis of Complex Organics

    TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1

    Biological potential of Mars

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 3.1

    Biomimetic Cluster Synthesis: Bridging the Structure and Reactivity of Biotic and Abiotic Iron-Sulfur Motifs

    TEAM: MSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 7.1, 7.2

    Climate, Habitability, and the Atmosphere on early Mars

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

    Computational Chemical Modeling the Link Between Structure and Reactivity of Iron-Sulfur Motifs

    TEAM: MSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 7.1, 7.2

    Current Status and Future Bioastronomy with the Large Millimeter Telescope

    TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1

    Formation of Molecular Hydrogen via Interaction of Ionizing Radiation with Hydrocarbon Ices in the Interstellar Medium

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1

    Formation of Nitrogenated Aromatics in the Interstellar Medium

    TEAM: SETI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1

    Functional Genomics of Thioredoxins in Halobacterium sp. NRC-1

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 5.3

    Hydrodynamic Escape from Planetary Atmospheres

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

    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

    Mechanistical Studies on the Non-Equilibrium Chemistry of Unusual Carbon Oxide in Solar System Ices

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2, 3.1

    Modeling grain surface reaction pathways for large organic molecules

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1

    Module 1: The Building Blocks of Life

    TEAM: UA / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 4.2, 7.1

    Module 2: Formation of Habitable Planetary Systems

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

    Molecular Beam Studies of Nitrogen Reactions on Iron-Sulfur Surfaces

    TEAM: MSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 7.1, 7.2

    Molecular Deuteration on grain surfaces

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1

    Organic and Inorganic Acids from Ion-irradiated Ices

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

    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 Life and Catalysis - Philosophical Considerations

    TEAM: MSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.2

    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

    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

    Prebiotic Organics from Space

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

    Probing the Structure and Nitrogen Reduction Activity of Iron-Sulfur Minerals

    TEAM: MSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 7.1, 7.2

    Research Activities in the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory

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

    Stability of methane hydrates in the presence of high salinity brines on Mars

    TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 7.1, 7.2

    Structure, Function, and Biosynthesis of the Complex Iron-Sulfur Clusters at the Active Sites of Nitrogenases and Hydrogenases

    TEAM: MSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 7.1, 7.2

    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

    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

    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

    Ultra-violet processing of ices in the Rosette Nebula

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1

    Unveiling the evolution and interplay of ice and gas in quiescent clouds

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1

    X-ray emission from an intermediate-mass young star, protostar binary system and star-forming regions

    TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1