Astrobiology: Life in the Universe

NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)


  1. Now showing: Year 2005 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

    An Astronomical Search for the Essential Ingredients for Life: Placing Our Habitable System in Context.

    TEAM: UA / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.3

    Characterization of Terrestrial Planets From Disk-Averaged Spectra: Earths Around Other Stars

    TEAM: VPL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2, 7.2

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

    TEAM: VPL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2, 7.2

    Characterizing Extrasolar Planets through Planet-Star Interactions

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2

    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

    Climate Model For Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets

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

    Delivery of organic materials to planets

    TEAM: UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 7.2

    Detectability of Planets and Biosignatures: Implications for TPF-C/TPF-I and LifeFinder

    TEAM: VPL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2, 7.2

    Electrochemical isotope effects with applications to stable isotope fractionation in transition metals

    TEAM: UCLA / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 4.2, 4.3

    Exploring Conditions for Habitability on Mars

    TEAM: VPL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2, 2.1

    Extrasolar Planetary Systems

    TEAM: UCLA / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2

    Extrasolar Planetary Systems and the Potential for Terrestrial Planets

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

    Extrasolar Planets

    TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2

    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

    Habitable Planets

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

    Model Synthesis and Architecture

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

    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 1. From Molecular Clouds to Habitable Planetary Systems

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

    Searching for planets around evolved stars

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2, 6.2

    Self-consistent Atmospheres and Different Orbital Geometries for Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets: Being Prepared for the Unexpected

    TEAM: VPL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2, 7.2

    The Abiotic Planetary Model: The Upper and Lower Boundary Condition on the Atmosphere

    TEAM: VPL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 4.1, 7.2

    The Evolution of a Habitable Planet (Sigurdsson)

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2

    The Habitability of the Nearest Stars to Complex Life

    TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2, 2.1, 7.1, 7.2

    The History of Evolution of the Martian Surface and Water on Mars

    TEAM: CAL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 4.1

    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

    Young Low Mass Stars

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2