Astrobiology: Life in the Universe

NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)


  1. Now showing: Year 2005 projects that addressed Astrobiology Roadmap Objective 2.2

  2. Roadmap Goal 2: Explore for past or present habitable environments, prebiotic chemistry and signs of life elsewhere in our Solar System

    Objective 2.2: Outer Solar System exploration

    Astrobiology Winter School

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2, 3.1, 6.1, 7.1

    Chemistry Models for Extrasolar Planets

    TEAM: VPL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

    Chondritic Meteorites as Records of Aqueous Activity on Asteroidal Parent Bodies

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2, 3.1

    Cometary Water and Volatile Abundances

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2, 3.1

    Cosmic Ice Laboratory: Organic Synthesis in Energetically Processed Ices

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

    Darwinian Chemistry

    TEAM: UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1

    Deep Impact Target Characterization

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2, 3.1

    Dynamics of comets, asteroids, and planets

    TEAM: UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.2

    From Stars to Genes

    TEAM: UCLA / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.2

    From Stars to Genes: Addition to Extrasolar Planetary Systems

    TEAM: UCLA / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2

    Icelandic Subglacial Volcanic Habitats

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 5.3, 6.2, 7.1

    Kuiper Belt Orbital Studies

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.2

    Microbial and biogeochemical characterization of a terrestrial analogue site for Mars.

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

    Origin and Evolution of Organics in Planetary Systems

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

    Origin of Irregular Satellites

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2

    Planetary Biology, Evolution and Intelligence (project)

    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, 7.2

    Project 7. Astrobiotechnology

    TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.2, 5.3, 6.2, 7.1

    Searching for water and organic material in the Outer Solar System

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2

    Subsurface Biospheres (project)

    TEAM: URI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.3, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

    The impact of atmospheric particles on life

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 4.3, 7.1

    UH NAI Executive Summary

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2

    Untangling Europa's Evolution

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2

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  • 1.1 Models of formation and evolution of habitable planets
  • 1.2 Indirect and direct astronomical observations of extrasolar habitable planets
  • 2.1 Mars exploration
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  • 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
  • Indiana University, Bloomington
  • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  • SETI Institute
  • University of California, Los Angeles
  • University of Colorado, Boulder
  • University of Hawaii
  • University of Rhode Island
  • University of Washington
  • Virtual Planetary Laboratory (JPL/CalTech)