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Astrobiology and Astrophilosophy: Subsuming or Bifurcating Disciplines? [PDF]
Философия и космология, 2019 Initially, astrobiology subsumed into philosophy. However, philosophy has increasingly subsumed into astrobiology concurrent with it steadily becoming an observational and experimental activity that mainly focuses on the link between life and the ...
Ian von Hegner
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The Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies (ARADS) Project
Astrobiology, 2023 With advances in commercial space launch capabilities and reduced costs to orbit, humans may arrive on Mars within a decade. Both to preserve any signs of past (and extant) martian life and to protect the health of human crews (and Earth's biosphere), it
B. Glass +20 more
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4-year Astrobiology Teaching Experience in an Astronomy Department [PDF]
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2019 Astrobiology is a multidisciplinary field related to the sciences of Astronomy, Chemistry, Biology and Geology. An optional Astrobiology course has been taught in the Astronomy department of Ege University (Turkey) since 2013. The main objectives of this
Bozkurt Zeynep
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Dark blue-green: Cave-inhabiting cyanobacteria as a model for astrobiology
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2023 Subterranean environments on Earth serve as an analog for the study of microbes on other planets, which has become an active area of research.
Patrick Jung +7 more
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Life on the Edge: Bioprospecting Extremophiles for Astrobiology
Journal of the Indian Institute of Science, 2023 Discovering exoplanets and satellites in habitable zones within and beyond our solar system has sparked intrigue in planetary setting varieties that could support life.
Júnia Schultz +3 more
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Intracellular bound chlorophyll residues identify 1 Gyr-old fossils as eukaryotic algae
Nature Communications, 2022 The authors report nickel-porphyrins derivatives of chlorophyll in ~1 Gyr-old multicellular eukaryotes, preserved in low-grade metamorphic rocks. This brand new approach permits to identify early phototrophic organisms through the geological record.
Marie Catherine Sforna +15 more
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The relevance of fungi in astrobiology research – Astromycology
Mycosphere, 2023 Since the very first steps of space exploration, fungi have been recorded as contaminants, hitchhikers, or as part of missions’ crews and payloads. Because fungi can cause human disease and are highly active decomposers, their presence in a space-linked ...
MF Simões +20 more
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Renaissance for magnetotactic bacteria in astrobiology
The ISME Journal, 2023 Capable of forming magnetofossils similar to some magnetite nanocrystals observed in the Martian meteorite ALH84001, magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) once occupied a special position in the field of astrobiology during the 1990s and 2000s.
Jian Shen +5 more
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Minerals, 2023 Our understanding of the diversity of life on our planet and the possibility of finding or sustaining life elsewhere in the universe plays a central role in supporting human space settlement and exploration.
Luca Tonietti +15 more
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Habitability of galaxies and the application of merger trees in astrobiology [PDF]
Serbian Astronomical Journal, 2019 Galaxies represent the main form of organization of matter in our universe. Therefore, they are of obvious interest for the new multidisciplinary field of astrobiology.
Stojković N. +2 more
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