Astrobiology
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Astrobiology: The Search for Life Elsewhere in the Universe
By Andrew MayIn their book What Does a Martian Look Like?, Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart say the following about it: It makes you think we only made it by the skin of our teeth. All those obstacles to overcome. All those ways for incipient life to fail ...
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Astrobiology: An Introduction
By Alan LongstaffWochner A, Attwater J, Coulson A, Holliger P. Ribozyme-catalyzed transcription of an active ribozyme. Science 2011;322:209–12. Wolf ET, Toon OB. Hospitable Archaean climates stimulated by a general circulation model.
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Astrobiology: A Very Short Introduction
By David C. CatlingJoe Kirschvink of the California Institute of Technology proposed how a Snowball Earth would melt, as well as the very phrase Snowball Earth. He suggested that volcanoes would punch through the ice and vent carbon dioxide into the ...
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Astrobiology: A Very Short Introduction
By David C. CatlingExamines the origins of life on Earth and the search for extraterrestrial life, through an understanding of the factors that have allowed life to exist on this planet and the commonalities on others that may enable life elsewhere.
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Astrobiology: An Introduction
By Michael Gross, Kevin W. PlaxcoConclusions We've come a long way in the half century following the discoveries of the double helix and prebiotic chemistry, but the latter did not advance as fast as molecular biology, and perhaps not as far as Miller would have hoped ...
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Astrobiology: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy
By Richard Gordon, Ted Peters, Joseph Seckbach[13.17] Patton, P., Language in the Cosmos II: Hello There GJ273b, Universe Today, 2018. [13.18] Peters, T., Astroethics: Engaging Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life-Forms, in: Encountering Life in the Universe, ... [13.25] Schwieterman ...
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Astrobiology: Future Perspectives
By Francois Robert, Antonio Lazcano, P. EhrenfreundThis book is focused on abiogenic organic matter from the viewpoint of astronomy and planetary science and considers its potential relevance to the origins of life on Earth and elsewhere.
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Astrobiology: Understanding Life in the Universe
By Charles S. CockellThis new second edition: Expands on information about the nature of astrobiology and why it is useful Contains a new chapter “What is Life?” that explores the history of attempts to understand life Contains 20% more material on the ...
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Astrobiology: A Multidisciplinary Approach
By Jonathan Irving LunineNew Delhi was born at two o'clock on 12 December 1911, asKing George V proclaimed it to be India's new capital athis grand Coronation Durbar. New Delhi: Making of aCapital...
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Astrobiology: The Quest for the Conditions of Life
By Christa Baumstark-Khan, Gerda HorneckThis book bridges a gap in the literature by bringing together leading specialists from different backgrounds. It addresses the specific need for a readable book on this very interdisciplinary and new topic at research level.
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Astrobiology: A Brief Introduction
By Michael Gross, Kevin W. PlaxcoNew to this edition is a glossary of terms and an epilogue recapping the key unanswered questions, making Astrobiology an ideal primer for students and, indeed, for anyone curious about life and the Universe.
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Astrobiology: Understanding Life in the Universe
By Charles S. CockellThis new second edition: Expands on information about the nature of astrobiology and why it is useful Contains a new chapter “What is Life?” that explores the history of attempts to understand life Contains 20% more material on the ...
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Astrobiology: Understanding Life in the Universe
By Charles S. CockellThe book is designed to convey some of the major conceptual foundations in astrobiology that cut across a diversity of traditional fields including chemistry, biology, geosciences, physics and astronomy.
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Astrobiology: A Brief Introduction
By Michael Gross, Kevin W. PlaxcoNew to this edition is a glossary of terms and an epilogue recapping the key unanswered questions, making Astrobiology an ideal primer for students and, indeed, for anyone curious about life and the Universe.
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Astrobiology: A Very Short Introduction
By David C. CatlingBut since most terrestrial rocks lack fossils, absence of life in ALH84001 doesn't mean that life on Mars didn't exist. ... Galileo discovered the four largest moons in 1610, which are Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, going outwards ...
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Astrobiology: Understanding Life in the Universe
By Charles S. CockellThe book is designed to convey some of the major conceptual foundations in astrobiology that cut across a diversity of traditional fields including chemistry, biology, geosciences, physics and astronomy.
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Astrobiology: From the Origins of Life to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
By Akihiko Yamagishi, Takeshi Kakegawa, Tomohiro UsuiThis book provides concise and cutting-edge reviews in astrobiology, a young and still emerging multidisciplinary field of science that addresses the fundamental questions of how life originated and diversified on Earth, whether life exists ...
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Astrobiology: Exploring Life in the Universe
By Lewis DartnellDiscusses the possibility of life on other planets, examines the history and properties of Earth that allowed life, and explores the most likely abodes life may be found.
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Astrobiology: A Brief Introduction
By Michael Gross, Kevin W. PlaxcoIn the first scholarly overview of this dynamic field, biochemists Kevin W. Plaxco and Michael Gross tell the story of life from the Big Bang to the present.
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Astrobiology: An Introduction
By Michael Gross, Kevin W. PlaxcoWhat is life?