Astrobiology

Article	Citations
Spore Survival During Abrasive Saltation on Mars: A Comment on Bak et al.	87
Chapter 10: Planetary Protection—History, Science, and the Future	57
Extremophiles in Earth's Deep Seas: A View Toward Life in Exo-Oceans	48
Hydrothermal Regeneration of Ammonium as a Basin-Scale Driver of Primary Productivity	47
Life Detection and Microbial Biomarker Profiling with Signs of Life Detector-Life Detector Chip During a Mars Drilling Simulation Campaign in the Hyperarid Core of the Atacama Desert	42
Novel Chimeric Amino Acid-Fatty Alcohol Ester Amphiphiles Self-Assemble into Stable Primitive Membranes in Diverse Geological Settings	38
Deoxyribonucleic Acid Extraction from Mars Analog Soils and Their Characterization with Solid-State Nanopores	37
Ultraviolet Resistance of Microorganisms Isolated from Uranium-Rich Minerals from Perus, Brazil	37
Self-Shielding Enhanced Organics Synthesis in an Early Reduced Earth’s Atmosphere	35
Proteomic Insights into Psychrophile Growth in Perchlorate-Amended Subzero Conditions: Implications for Martian Life Detection	35
Scientific Targets of Tanpopo: Astrobiology Exposure and Micrometeoroid Capture Experiments at the Japanese Experiment Module Exposed Facility of the International Space Station	33
Traces of Bacterial Contribution to Calcite Weathering Detected by Statistical Characterizations of Surface Microtopography	32
What Would an Alien Amino Acid Alphabet Look Like and Why?	31
Magma Ocean Evolution of the TRAPPIST-1 Planets	30
Exobiology of the Venusian Clouds: New Insights into Habitability through Terrestrial Models and Methods of Detection	29
Protective Effects of Halite to Vacuum and Vacuum-Ultraviolet Radiation: A Potential Scenario During a Young Sun Superflare	28
Boron as a Hypothetical Participant in the Prebiological Enantiomeric Enrichment	27
Sharp Rise in Cosmic Ray Irradiation of Organisms on Earth Caused by a Nearby SN Shockwave Passage	27
An Accounting of Contamination Control Requirements, Implementation, and Verification of the Sample Tubes for the Mars 2020 Mission and Future Return Sample Science	27
The Venus Life Equation	26
Linear Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer (LITMS) Instrument Field and Laboratory Tests as Part of the ARADS Field Campaigns	25
Challenges and Opportunities in Using Amino Acids to Decode Carbonaceous Chondrite and Asteroid Parent Body Processes	24
The Call for a New Definition of Biosignature	24
Eta-Earth Revisited I: A Formula for Estimating the Maximum Number of Earth-Like Habitats	23
Mesoarchean Microbial Cd, Ba, and Ni Cycling: Evidence for Photosynthesis in Pongola Group Stromatolites through Novel Stable Isotopes and High-Resolution Trace Element Maps	23

Astrobiological Implications of Interstellar Material in the Solar System	23
Haloferax volcanii Remains Viable and Shows Morphological Changes under Anoxic (CO2-Enriched) and Hypobaric (2.4 kPa) Atmospheric Conditions	23
Organic Biosignature Degradation in Hydrothermal and Serpentinizing Environments: Implications for Life Detection on Icy Moons and Mars	23
Exploiting the Unique Biology of Caenorhabditis elegans to Launch Neurodegeneration Studies in Space	23
A Review of the “Black Beauty” Martian Regolith Breccia and Its Martian Habitability Record	20
Correction to: Simplified Meteorite Parent Body Alteration of Amino Acids by Hydrothermal Processes (Doi: 10.1089/Ast.2024.0096)	19
Planning the Human Future Beyond Earth with the Prison Population: The Life Beyond Project	19
Duplex Formation and the Origins of Homochirality	18
The New Astronomical Frontier of Interstellar Objects	18
Nitrogen Incorporation in Potassic and Micro- and Meso-Porous Minerals: Potential Biogeochemical Records and Targets for Mars Sampling	17
Strong Evidence that Abiogenesis Is a Rapid Process on Earth Analogs	17
Undecanoic Acid and L-Phenylalanine in Vermiculite: Detection, Characterization, and UV Degradation Studies for Biosignature Identification on Mars	17
Structural Biosignatures—A Category of Potential Biosignatures in the Life Detection Knowledge Base	16
UV Transmission in Prebiotic Environments on Early Earth	16
The Impact of Extreme Low Temperatures on Raman Spectra of Amino Acids Relevant for the Search for Life on Europa	15
An Interview with Dr. Sara Seager	15
Effects of UV and Calcium Perchlorates on Uracil Deposited on Strontium Fluoride Substrates at Mars Pressure and Temperature	15
Prebiotic Nucleoside Phosphorylation in a Simulated Deep-Sea Supercritical Carbon Dioxide–Water Two-Phase Environment	14
Measurement of Photochemical Haze Refractive Indices and Hygroscopicity: Influence of CO2 in CH4/H2S/N2 Mixtures	14
Using Organic Contaminants to Constrain the Terrestrial Journey of the Martian Meteorite Lafayette	14
Future of the Search for Life: Workshop Report	14
Absorption and Scattering of UV and Visible Light Through Simulated Martian Regoliths and Rock Samples	14
Space Radiation Dosimetry at the Exposure Facility of the International Space Station for the Tanpopo Mission	14
Quantum Dots in Peroxidase-like Chemistry and Formamide-Based Hot Spring Synthesis of Nucleobases	13
Out of Thin Air? Astrobiology and Atmospheric Chemotrophy	13
Final Report of the Mars Sample Return Science Planning Group 2 (MSPG2)	13
Catalytic Synthesis of Polyribonucleic Acid on Prebiotic Rock Glasses	13
Fusarium oxysporumas an Opportunistic Fungal Pathogen onZinnia hybridaPlants Grown on board the International Space Station	12
Bridging Place-Based Astrobiology Education with Genomics, Including Descriptions of Three Novel Bacterial Species Isolated from Mars Analog Sites of Cultural Relevance	12
An Overview of Lipid Biomarkers in Terrestrial Extreme Environments with Relevance for Mars Exploration	12
The Radiation Environment of Ceres and Implications for Surface Sampling	12
Chapter 4: A Geological and Chemical Context for the Origins of Life on Early Earth	12
Determining the “Biosignature Threshold” for Life Detection on Biotic, Abiotic, or Prebiotic Worlds	12
Exoplanet Innovators Interview: Sara Seager Interviews Jim Kasting	12
Planetary Protection Knowledge Gap Closure Enabling Crewed Missions to Mars	12
Spectroscopic Protocol for Biosignature Detection: Arctic Ice Samples as Analogs for Icy Moons	12
Chemical, Thermal, and Radiation Resistance of an Iron Porphyrin: A Model Study of Biosignature Stability	12
Different Scenarios for the Origin and the Subsequent Succession of a Hypothetical Microbial Community in the Cloud Layer of Venus	12
Rosalind Franklin Society Proudly Announces the 2023 Award Recipient for Astrobiology	11
Recommendation on Orbiting Sample Cleanliness	11
Spore Survival During Abrasive Saltation on Mars: A Reply to the Comment by Minns et al.	11
Experimental Identification of Potential Martian Biosignatures in Open and Closed Systems	11
Are Large Sulfur Isotope Variations Biosignatures in an Ancient, Impact-Induced Hydrothermal Mars Analog?	10
Eta-Earth Revisited II: Deriving a Maximum Number of Earth-Like Habitats in the Galactic Disk	10
Humid Evolution of Haze in the Atmosphere of Super-Earths in the Habitable Zone	10
Life Detection Knowledge Base: Assessment Criteria for Potential Biosignatures	10
Venus, an Astrobiology Target	10
Dispersion of Bacteria by Low-Pressure Boiling: Life Detection in Enceladus' Plume Material	10
Introducing the Venus Collection—Papers from the First Workshop on Habitability of the Cloud Layer	10
Preliminary Planning for Mars Sample Return (MSR) Curation Activities in a Sample Receiving Facility (SRF)	9

Preservation of Extracellular Sheaths Produced by Iron-Oxidizing Bacteria: An Analog for Potential Morphological Biosignatures on Mars	9
Rosalind Franklin Society Proudly Announces the 2022 Award Recipient for Astrobiology	9
Recovery of Lipid Biomarkers in Hot Spring Digitate Silica Sinter as Analogs for Potential Biosignatures on Mars: Results from Laboratory and Flight-Like Experiments	9
Simple Lipids Form Stable Higher-Order Structures in Concentrated Sulfuric Acid	9
Considerations for Detecting Organic Indicators of Metabolism on Enceladus	9
Astrobiology by Gavriil Tikhov	8
Quantifying the Bioavailable Energy in an Ancient Hydrothermal Vent on Mars and a Modern Earth-Based Analog	8
Mathematical Model of Antibiotic Resistance Determinants' Stability Under Space Flight Conditions	8
Integrated Molar Absorptivity of Mid- and Far-Infrared Spectra of Alanine and a Selection of Other Five Amino Acids of Astrobiological Relevance	8
DNA Polymerization in Icy Moon Abyssal Pressure Conditions	8
The Venusian Lower Atmosphere Haze as a Depot for Desiccated Microbial Life: A Proposed Life Cycle for Persistence of the Venusian Aerial Biosphere	8
Preservation of Terrestrial Microorganisms and Organics Within Alteration Products of Chondritic Meteorites from the Nullarbor Plain, Australia	8
Building Identity and Community for Early Career Professionals in the Emerging Field of Astrobiology	8
Inducing Homochirality Through Intermediary Catalytic Species: A Stochastic Approach	8
Testing Abiotic Reduction of NAD+ Directly Mediated by Iron/Sulfur Minerals	8
Preservation and Distributions of Covalently Bound Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons in Ancient Biogenic Kerogens and Insoluble Organic Macromolecules	8
Preface to Eta-Earth Revisited: How Common Are Earth-like Habitats in the Galaxy?	8
Ancient Siliciclastic–Evaporites as Seen by Remote Sensing Instrumentation with Implications for the Rover-Scale Exploration of Sedimentary Environments on Mars	8
A Mission Simulating the Search for Life on Mars with Automated Drilling, Sample Handling, and Life Detection Instruments Performed in the Hyperarid Core of the Atacama Desert, Chile	8
A Bayesian Analysis of the Probability of the Origin of Life Per Site Conducive to Abiogenesis	8
Evaluation of Decontamination Potential of Wet Wipes Against Microbial Contamination of Chinese Spacecraft Materials	8
Microbial Motility at the Bottom of North America: Digital Holographic Microscopy and Genomic Motility Signatures in Badwater Spring, Death Valley National Park	8
Directional Aspects of Vegetation Linear and Circular Polarization Biosignatures	8
Does Gaia Play Dice? Simple Models of Non-Darwinian Selection	8
Photochemical Synthesis of Ammonia and Amino Acids from Nitrous Oxide	7
Hot Spring Microbial Community Elemental Composition: Hot Spring and Soil Inputs, and the Transition from Biocumulus to Siliceous Sinter	7
Correction to: Astrobiology 2024;24(3):230–274	7
Self-Assembled Structures Formed in CO2-Enriched Atmospheres: A Case-Study for Martian Biomimetic Forms	7
Raman Spectroscopic and Microbial Study of Biofilms Hosted Gypsum Deposits in the Hypersaline Wetlands: Astrobiological Perspective	7
High pCO2Reduces Sensitivity to CO2Perturbations on Temperate, Earth-like Planets Throughout Most of Habitable Zone	7
Effects of Desiccation and Freezing on Microbial Ionizing Radiation Survivability: Considerations for Mars Sample Return	7
A Machine-Learning Approach to Biosignature Exploration on Early Earth and Mars Using Sulfur Isotope and Trace Element Data in Pyrite	7
Life Detection on Icy Moons Using Flow Cytometry and Exogenous Fluorescent Stains	7
Quantifying the Potential for Nitrate-Dependent Iron Oxidation on Early Mars: Implications for the Interpretation of Gale Crater Organics	7
Phosphine on Venus Cannot Be Explained by Conventional Processes	7
Stromatolite-like Structures Within Microbially Laminated Sandstones of the Paleoarchean Moodies Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa	7
Critical Aspects of Material Selection in the Packaging and Transporting of Returned Extraterrestrial Samples	7
Introduction to the Life Detection Knowledge Base Project	7
Mars Sample Return (MSR): Planning for Returned Sample Science	7
Biosignatures Preserved in Carbonate Nodules from the Western Qaidam Basin, NW China: Implications for Life Detection on Mars	7
Aquatic Ferrous Solutions of Prebiotic Mineral Salts as Strong UV Protectants and Possible Loci of Life Origin	7
Analysis of Early Iron Sulfide, Carbonate, and Phosphate Mineral Analogues Produced by Flow-Driven Precipitation in a Microchannel	7
BioSentinel: A Biofluidic Nanosatellite Monitoring Microbial Growth and Activity in Deep Space	7
Jack Dwayne Farmer: April 18, 1947–February 22, 2023	7
Impact of M Dwarfs Ultraviolet Radiation on Prebiotic Chemistry: The Case of Adenine	7
Characterization of the Halochromic Gloeocapsin Pigment, a Cyanobacterial Biosignature for Paleobiology and Astrobiology	6
Space Weathering: Processing Velocities in Organic Materials as a Function of Electron Beam Energies—Solar Electron Erosion Rate Application	6
Inefficient Water Degassing Inhibits Ocean Formation on Rocky Planets: An Insight from Self-Consistent Mantle Degassing Models	6
UVC-Intense Exoplanets May Not Be Uninhabitable: Evidence from a Desert Lichen	6
Chapter 5: Major Biological Innovations in the History of Life on Earth	6
CO2 and H2S in Abiogenic Hydrocarbon Synthesis and the Emergence of Prebiological States	6
Theoretical Investigation into a Possibility of Formation of Propylene Oxide Homochirality in Space	6
Organic Catalytic Activity as a Method for Agnostic Life Detection	6
Spectral Detection of Nanophase Iron Minerals Produced by Fe(III)-Reducing Hyperthermophilic Crenarchaea	6
Solid-Phase Microextraction for Organic Contamination Control Throughout Assembly and Operational Phases of Space Missions	6
Self-Oxidation of the Atmospheres of Rocky Planets with Implications for the Origin of Life	6
Artificial Intelligence-Enhanced Detection of Biogenicity Using Laboratory Specimens of Biologically and Microbially Induced Sedimentary Structures in a Controlled Experiment	6
Life Is Uncertain: Inherent Variability Exhibited by Organisms, and at Higher Levels of Biological Organization	6
BioSentinel: Validating Sensitivity of Yeast Biosensors to Deep Space Relevant Radiation	6
Correction to: Astrobiology 2023; 23(4): 415–430	6
Screening the Survival of Cyanobacteria Under Perchlorate Stress. Potential Implications for Mars In Situ Resource Utilization	6
BioSentinel: A Biological CubeSat for Deep Space Exploration	5
A One-Dimensional Energy Balance Model Parameterization for the Formation of CO2 Ice on the Surfaces of Eccentric Extrasolar Planets	5
Solid-State Single-Molecule Sensing with the Electronic Life-Detection Instrument for Enceladus/Europa (ELIE)	5
Heterotrophic Growth Dominates in the Most Extremotolerant Extremophile Cultures	5
Study of Ferrocyanide Adsorption onto Different Minerals as Prebiotic Chemistry Assays	5
The Design and Delivery of an Astrobiology Massive Open Online Class	5
UV Time-Resolved Laser-Induced Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Amino Acids Found in Meteorites: Implications for Space Science and Exploration	5
Radiolytic Effects on Biological and Abiotic Amino Acids in Shallow Subsurface Ices on Europa and Enceladus	5
Aeolian Biodispersal of Terrestrial Microorganisms on Mars Through Saltation Bombardment of Spacecraft	5
Detectability of Surface Biosignatures for Directly Imaged Rocky Exoplanets	5
Remote Detection of Red Edge Spectral Characteristics in Floating Aquatic Vegetation	5
Information Transmission via Molecular Communication in Astrobiological Environments	5
The Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies (ARADS) Project	5
The ‘Oumuamua Controversy: Bayesian Priors and the Evolution of Technological Intelligence	5
Investigating Polyextremophilic Bacteria in Al Wahbah Crater, Saudi Arabia: A Terrestrial Model for Life on Saturn’s Moon Enceladus	5
Constraining the Rosalind Franklin Rover/Ma_MISS Instrument Capability in the Detection of Organics	5
Rapid Destruction of Lipid Biomarkers Under Simulated Cosmic Radiation	5
Chemical Gardens Mimic Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectra and Morphology of Biogenic Mn Oxides	5
Synthesis of Phospholipids Under Plausible Prebiotic Conditions and Analogies with Phospholipid Biochemistry for Origin of Life Studies	5

The Emergence of Astrobiology: A Topic-Modeling Perspective	5
Searching for Life in Hot Spring Carbonate Systems: Investigating Raman Spectra of Carotenoid-Bearing Organic Carbonaceous Inclusions from Travertines of Italy	5
Stability of 20 Biogenic Amino Acids in Concentrated Sulfuric Acid: Implications for the Habitability of Venus' Clouds	5
Identification and Archive of Mars 2020 Spacecraft Microbial Isolates	5
Bacterial Growth in Brines Formed by the Deliquescence of Salts Relevant to Cold Arid Worlds	5
Biomarker Preservation in Antarctic Sandstones after Prolonged Space Exposure Outside the International Space Station During the ESA EXPOSE-E Lichens and Fungi Experiment	5
The Bioburden and Ionic Composition of Hypersaline Lake Ices: Novel Habitats on Earth and Their Astrobiological Implications	4
Selection and Analytical Performances of the Dragonfly Mass Spectrometer Gas Chromatographic Columns to Support the Search for Organic Molecules of Astrobiological Interest on Titan	4
Habitability Is Binary, But It Is Used by Astrobiologists to Encompass Continuous Ecological Questions	4
Exoplanet Innovators Interview: Sara Seager Interviews Diana Valencia	4
Diagnosing an Opportunistic Fungal Pathogen on Spaceflight-Grown Plants Using the MinION Sequencing Platform	4
Is There Such a Thing as a Biosignature?	4
Planetary Minerals Catalyze Conversion of a Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon to a Prebiotic Quinone: Implications for Origins of Life	4
Mechanism of Prebiotic Uracil Synthesis from Urea and HC3O+ in Space	4
Translation as a Biosignature	4
Timescales for Prebiotic Photochemistry Under Realistic Surface Ultraviolet Conditions	4
Correction to: Astrobiology 2023;23(12):1303–1336	4
Mars 2020 Mission Biological Return Sample Contamination Control Approach and Verification	4
Soil Carbon Dioxide Planetary Thermostat	4
Exoplanet Innovators Interview: Sara Seager Interviews Dave Charbonneau	4
Mutation Analysis of therpoBGene in the Radiation-Resistant BacteriumDeinococcus radioduransR1 Exposed to Space during the Tanpopo Experiment at the International Space Station	4
The Molecular Record of Metabolic Activity in the Subsurface of the Río Tinto Mars Analog	4
Acritarch-like Microorganisms from the 1.9 Ga Gunflint Chert, Canada	4
Unavoidable Extinctions in Ecosystems of Extreme Isolation	4
The Determination of the Spatial Distribution of Indigenous Lipid Biomarkers in an Immature Jurassic Sediment Using Time-of-Flight–Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry	4
Fluorescence Microscopy with Deep UV, Near UV, and Visible Excitation forIn SituDetection of Microorganisms	3
Ice Transit and Performance Analysis for Cryorobotic Subglacial Access Missions on Earth and Europa	3
Rosalind Franklin Society Proudly Announces the 2024 Award Recipient for Astrobiology	3
Freshwater and Evaporite Brine Compositions on Hadean Earth: Priming the Origins of Life	3
The Origin of Life: What Is the Question?	3
Potential for Phototrophy in Venus' Clouds	3
A Novel Abiotic Pathway for Phosphine Synthesis over Acidic Dust in Venus' Atmosphere	3
Timing and Likelihood of the Origin of Life Derived from Post-Impact Highly Reducing Atmospheres	3
A Method to Increase and Document the Impact of Astrobiology Education and Public Outreach	3
Survival of Environment-Derived Opportunistic Bacterial Pathogens to Martian Conditions: Is There a Concern for Human Missions to Mars?	3
Microbial Response to Increased Temperatures Within a Lava-Induced Hydrothermal System in Iceland: An Analogue for the Habitability of Volcanic Terrains on Mars	3
Abiotic Formation of Calcium Oxalate under UV Irradiation and Implications for Biomarker Detection on Mars	3
Beyond Homochirality: Computer Modeling Hints of Heterochiral Proteins in Early and Extraterrestrial Life	3
Confidence of Life Detection: The Problem of Unconceived Alternatives	3
Microbial Communities in Saltpan Sediments Show Tolerance to Mars Analog Conditions, but Susceptibility to Chloride and Perchlorate Toxicity	3
Variable and Large Losses of Diagnostic Biomarkers After Simulated Cosmic Radiation Exposure in Clay- and Carbonate-Rich Mars Analog Samples	3
Astrobiological Potential of Fe/Mg Smectites with Special Emphasis on Jezero Crater, Mars 2020 Landing Site	3
Mineral Matrix Effects on Pyrolysis Products of Kerogens Infer Difficulties in Determining Biological Provenance of Macromolecular Organic Matter at Mars	3
Investigation of the Cytotoxicity of Mars-Relevant Minerals upon Abrasion	3
Foreword to the Astrobiology Primer 3.0	3
Remote Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy of Bacterial Growths in Carbonate Rocks in a Mars-like Atmosphere	3
UV Transmission in Natural Waters on Prebiotic Earth	3
Chapter 6: The Breadth and Limits of Life on Earth	3
Origin of Silicate Spherules and Geochemistry of Re and Platinum-Group Elements Within Microfossil-Bearing Archean Chert from the 3.4 Ga Strelley Pool Formation, Western Australia	3
Life Detection Knowledge Base: A Community Tool for Knowledge Management and Representation	3
Study of the Stability of Gly·MgSO4·5H2O under Simulated Martian Conditions by In Situ Raman Spectroscopy	3
A Microbial Survival Model for the Permanently Shadowed Regions of the Moon Shows Long-Term Survival of Terrestrial Microbial Contamination	3
In Memoriam: David Hochberg February 3, 1957–December 30, 2023	3
‘Oumuamua Is Not a Probe Sent to Our Solar System by an Alien Civilization	3